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Biographical Skctchcf!: 
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HE Kansas City Press 
Club herewith presents 
a book of photographs 
and Hfe sketches of 
business and professional men of 
Greater Kansas City — men who 
are performing their share in the 
world's work. <I Our purpose, 
rather than to give any citizen or 
enterprise an undue amount of 
publicity, is to provide for metro- 
politan newspaper libraries 
throughout the country a work of 
reference on Greater Kansas City. 
^ All vital facts in the biogra- 
phies have been furnished by the 
subjects themselves; so that this 
book is as nearly correct as any- 
thing of the sort ever published. 

THE KANSAS CITY PRESS 
CLUB. 

April 15, 1912. 



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GREATER KANSAS CITY 

The "Nerve Center of the Middle West" and the Gateway to an Empire 
of Boundless Possibilities. 




N VIEW of the fact that this vo'.ume is destined to find a place 
in newspaper libraries throughout the country, many of them 
remote from Kansas City, the compilers feel that it is no more 
than proper that a short history of this "gateway to the South- 
west" should be incorporated within its pages. There are also 
those among local readers who, it is felt, will appreciate a 
concise resume of the features that have made the name of 
Kansas City a synonym for progress. In a work of this kind no attempt 
can be made to devote space to any one industry and statistical tabulation^ 
obviously must be left out. These matters are considered ably and in detail 
by the Commercial Club and other organizations and individuals who will 
gladly enlarge upon what is, of necessity, briefly compassed here. 

Occupying a strategic point, as it w^ere, between the vact food-supplying 
plains and w^ealth-produc-ng mines of the West and Southwest and the 
manufacturing cities and towns of the East, Greater Kansas City stands unique 
in the roll of municipalities. By "Greater Kansas City" is meant all urb-^n 
life within a ten-mile radius from the junction of the Kansas River with 
the Missouri. This includes the two Kansas Citys. divided by a state line, 
but one in interest and progress. So closely allied with these larger cities 
as to be virtually physical parts of them are Rosedale, Kansas, and Inde- 
pendence, Missouri, and the village of Harlem, Missouri, on the Clay County 
side of the Missouri River, where plans are developing tha* will mature in 
an immense industrial center within the next few years. In this teritory 
dw^ell three-quarters of a million souls, interested in one way or another 
in enterprises whose aggregate invested capital is approximately a billion 
dollars. 

The first permanent settlements in this region were made in 1 82 1 by 
French fur traders from St. Louis under the leadership of Francois Chouteau. 
A town was laid out in Missouri in 1838, and in 1853 it was incorporated 
as a city. The municipality on the Kansas side of the state line dates its 
settlement from about the same period, but it was not chartered as a city 
until 1886. Independence was settled in 1827 and chartered in 1889. 

Kansas City has from the first been the recognized gateway between 
the East and the West, being in early times the starting point for the pic- 
turesque wagon trains and stage lines that carried freight and passengers 
to the Southwest and Northwest before the coming of the raMroads, the 
first of which to be built across the plains had 'ts beginning here. This 
was in the early '60s. Ra'I connection with the East had been established 
already and the commercial importance of Kansas City assured. The city's 
grow^th has been rapid and virtually uninterrupted. 

Proximity to the coal fields of Kansas and Central Missouri and the 
great oil and gas fields of the Southwest, which to a large extent solve the 
problem of fuel for manufacturers, together with the inevhaustible Fuppiv 
of raw materials native to her territory, and their acce«sibilitv by rail and 
water, give to Kan-'^as City an enviable advantage in the industrial world. 
About two thousand five hundred plants are in active operation in and about 
the city, their products ranging through every demand of mankind for neces- 
sity or luxury. 

As a railroad center Kansas City stands second in the United States. 
Virtually every ''v«itpm whi'-K traverses the continent has t(»rmtnaK or con- 
nections here. Thirty-four lines at present enter the city. Nearly three hun- 
dred passenger trains are ooerated into the Un-on station every day. with a 
considerable number stooping at the eight other stations within the ten- 
mile radius. The new Union station, in course of construction, will be the 
second largest in the United States and one of the most costly and complete. 

The magnitude of the live stock and packinf industry of Kansas City 
is too well known throughout the world to need more than' a cursory men- 
tion here. It stand* second only to that of Chicago, on which it is paininp 
at a rapid rate. Nearly twenty thousand persons are directly employed 
about the one hundred and sixty acres of yards and the eight packing estab- 
lishments that utilize more than six million animals every twelve months. The 
finest live stock exchange building in the world shelters the firms through 
whose hands this enormous business passes. 

To touch even briefly the many other points of Kansas City's industrial 
and civic greatness would alone require a volume larper than this. The 
following summary, however, will convey to the mind some idea of the 
present and potential importance of this "Gate City"; 

Seventy miles of boulevards. 

Third largest lumber market. 

Second largest primary grain market. 

Four hundred miles of paved streets. 

Nearly 300 churches, all denominations. 



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Real estate transfers, $56,000,000 a year. 

Flour output, 2,500,000 barrels annually. 

Third largest market for horses and mules. 

Salubrious climate 750 feet above sea level. 

Sewer system, storm and sanitary, nearly 400 miles. 

Public parks, 2.200 acres; cost in excess of $10,000,000. 

Lowest rate of taxation of any large city in the United States. 

Total crop wealth in trade territory, $10,007,000,000, yearly average. 

Buildings erected average 4,000 a year; total valuation, $15,000,000. 

Bank clearings average $3,000,000,000 yearly; sixth in the United States. 

Street railway trackage exceeds 300 miles; latest model cars; universal 
transfer system. 

United States postoffice receipts exceed $2,500,000 annually; seventh in 
the United States. 

Municipally owned waterworks; value $9,000,000; distributing mains, 
more than 400 miles. 

Largest agricultural implement market in the world ; sales aggregate 
$35,000,000 a year. 

Sixty -eight public grade schools; four high schools, two devoted to 
manual training; 1,000 teachers; enrollment, 48,000. 

Second largest distributing point in the United States for automobiles, 
besides two factories where motor cara are built and one assembling plant 
belonging to a Detroit factory. A. 



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THE KANSAS CITY PRESS CLUB 

A Short Account of the Inception, Purposes and Activities 
of the Organization. 




HE KANSAS CITY PRESS CLUB is the outgrowth of the feeling 
long existent among newspaper men in Kansas Cily that some 
sort of concrete organization was needed to give visible ex- 
pression to the fellow feeling that is and always has been a 
notable characteristic of the profession. It dates its aciive lile 
from September 24, 1910. On that afternoon, pursuant to a 
postcard call signed by "The Committee, twenty -five men, 
representatives of all the newspapers in Kansas City, Missouri, met in the 
Century Theater building for the purpose of effecting the formation of a 
club, or guild, or alliance of some sort. The idea was not very clearly defined 
at first and several subsequent meetings with their attendant discussions 
were necessary before a real working basis was reached. 

All the w^hile the idea was gaining ground and new^ supporters w^e.e bi:iiig 
enlisted for the project. Temporary officers were chosen and a committee 
appointed to frame a constitution and a set of by-law^s and take such steps 
as were deeined necessary for the completion of the proposed organization. 
The constitution, by-law^s, articles of association and the name, "The Kansas 
City Press Club," were finally adopted October 15, 1910, and the following 
officers elected: President, James E. Craig; vice-president, Edgar P. Allen; 
secretary, William S. Kirkpatrick; treasurer, William T. Armstrong. A board 
of seven directors was chosen at the same time. A movement was imme- 
diately begun to incorporate the club and this culminated in a charter being 
granted by the Secretary of State of Missouri, November 19, 1910. 

The first official dinner of the new organization was given at the Sexton 
hotel, November 3, 1910. This was followed soon by another at the Coatca 
house, at which Mayor Darius A. Brown was the guest of honor. 

At these various gatherings the matter of a "stunt" to entertain the 
pubHc and advertise the club was discussed. The idea crystallized finally and 
it was decided that a play should be produced. The club numbers among 

its members several former actors of considerable ability so they say and 

every newspaper staff includes at least one playwright. An effort was made 
to get these talents to working together, with a view to staging a "made in 
Kansas City" production. After many trials it was found, however, that the 
artistic temperaments of the play writers and erstwhile actors could not be 
made to synchronize, and all hope of a "home-made ' show w^as abandoned. 

The club members by this time had the entertainment notion firmly fixed 
in their minds, though, and were determined to do something along that line, 
despite their inability to utilize the genius within their own ranks. They, 
therefore, began to seek a hired attraction for presentation in a public hall 
or one of the smaller theaters. The more they looked about, however, the 
more apparent it became that this plan was not feasible. 1 he quest then 
took another turn and resulted in the outright purchase for one night of 
"The Climax," then playing at the Willis Wood theater. This production 
was presented on the evening of December 19, 1910, under the auspices of 
the club. A handsome souvenir program of the play was issued, filled with 
prose, poetry and pictures by the club members, and advertisements by the 
business men of the city. By virtue of the last-named contributions to the 
publication and the generous patronage of the theater-going public, the 
venture proved a success. All expenses incurred were paid and a small mar- 
gin remained on the credit side of the club's ledger. 

Emboldened by its ability to "make good," the Press Club now began a 
line of earnest work, and with the prestige gained through dignified activity 
during the next two months it found itself taking rank among the older social 
and business organizations of the city. Mayor Brown manifested his recog- 
nition of the "youngster" by selecting its president, James E. Craig, as a 
member of his cabinet. The appointment was made in February, 1911, and 
through it the club obtained not a little favorable publicity. 

The need of a home for the club, which had been felt from the begin- 
ning, had by the first of the year become imperative. The matter of securing 
suitable quarters was a vexing one. Several plans were put forward, but 
none seemed to meet with general approval until on February 2, 1 9 I I , an 
arrangement was made with Mr. Hughes Bryant, representing the Midland 
Building Company, whereby the use of space in the Midland building was 
obtained. This now comprises five rooms, four of which are pictured on 
another page of this book. 

Owing to removal from the city of some members, and those inevitable 
defections that follow every new movement when the novelty wears off, the 
club roster is somewhat smaller today than when the organization was 
effected. Those who remain, however, are "stayers" and workers, and the 
associate list is made up of men representing the highest social, business and 
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OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS 

Short Biographical Sketches of the Men at the Head of the 
Kansas City Press Club. 

ORACE H. HERR, president, was born at Lecompton, Kansas, 
March 30, 1880, son of Rev. Horace D. and Mary Ann Herr, who 
now^ reside at Humboldt, Iowa. His education was acquired in the 
high schools of Kansas City, Kansas, and Fredonia, Kansas, and 
Iowa College, Grinneli, Iowa. He began his newspaper career 
with the Wilson County, Kansas, Citizen, and has since had a wide 
experience as a metropolitan newspaper writer and editor. In 
1907-1909 and agam in 1910-1912 he was city editor of the Kansas City 
Post, of which he was also at one time sporting editor. Mr. Herr at present 
is devoting himself to magazine work, being a contributor to several pub- 
lications of national note, including Munsey's Railroad Man's Magazine, the 
Youth s Companion and Collier's Weekly. He was for some time engaged 
in railroad work, part of the time in Mexico, and most of his stories of rail- 
road life are drawn from personal observation. On October 19, 1901, he 
married Addie Christman of Fredonia, Kansas. They have one daughter, 
Miriam Leota. Mr. Herr is a member of the Masonic lodge. 

ROBERT EDWARD WARD, vice-president, was born at Golden City, Missouri, 
January 7, 1877, son of Rev. R. B. and Laura M. Ward, both natives of Ten- 
nessee. After studying in the grade and high schools of several different 
towns in Missouri, Mr. Ward entered Missouri Valley College at Marshall, 
Missouri, where he finished his education. He entered newspaper work 
immediately after graduation and was for some years connected with the 
different newspapers of Kansas City. For the last ten years he has been 
president of the Commercial News Bureau, of which he was the originator, 
and w^hich furnishes most of the commercial and financial reports used by 
the Kansas City papers and many others throughout the Southwest. In 
addition to his newspaper activity, Mr. Ward is interested in several outside 
enterprises, one of which is the Endless Necktie Company, of w^hich he is 
secretary and treasurer. On November 12, 1907, he married Frances Lee 
Kincaid. They have two children, a son and a daughter. 

ARTHUR NEWTON ALKIRE, secretary and treasurer, was born in Callaway 
County, Missouri, October 30, 1876, son of Michael J. and Emily F. Erskine 
Aikire, who were both born in Missouri. His early education was acquired 
in a country school, supplemented later by a course in the GilHam. Missouri, 
high school and a short period in Battle Creek College, Battle Creek, Michi- 
gan. His newspaper work began in the office of the Gilliam, Missouri, Bee 
in 1895. Since then he has owned country papers in Missouri and Kansas 
and has been connected with the Detroit Tribune, Detroit, Michigan; St. Louis 
Globe-Democrat, Kansas City Post and Kansas City Journal in various staff 
capacities. He is at present with the Journal. Outside of his newspaper 
experience, Mr. Aikire has been, for more or less lengthy periods, farmer, 
lumber jack, country school teacher, preacher, printer, advertising writer 
and actor, and has done some general magazine writing. He married Amy 
Bouche of Louisville, Kentucky, December 25, 1901. 

EDWARD H. KUNDEGRABER, director, was born in Kansas City. Kansas, 
September 2, 1872, son of Charles and Sophia Shack Kundegraber. His 
father was born in Vienna, Austria, and his mother at Ackenheim, Germany, 
ne^r Frankfort-on-the-Main. Starting out with a common school education, 
Mr. Kundegraber entered the newspaper field twenty-six years ago as "devil" 
in the Wyandotte, Kansas (now Kansas City, Kansas), Gazette office. From 
the case he graduated into the reportorial department and has since been 
connected with nearly every newspaper in Kansas City and one in St. Joseph, 
Missouri. He has been cattle market editor on the staff of the Daily Drovers' 
Telegram for the last six years. Prior to that he was assistant commercial 
editor of the Kansas City Star, in w^hich capacity he served for ten years. 
At one time he published the Amusement News, a weekly paper devoted to 
local playhouses. He married Alice E. Blackledge on July 14, 1908. He is 
a member of the Masonic lodge. 

THOMAS JEFFERSON TANNER, director, was bom in Sacramento. Illinois. 
son of Dr. W. D. and Margaret A. Tanner. The father, a native of Kentucky, 
was a soldier in the Mexican war, later a gold hunter in the Black Hills and 
a physician and a successful farmer in Southern Illinois. He died in Denver, 
Colorado, at the age of eighty-five. The son, Thomas J., who is grain market 
editor on the staff of the Daily Drovers' Telegram, has been in newspaper 
work in its various branches for more than tw^enty years, mainly in Los 
Angeles, California ; St. Louis and Kansas City, Missouri. He follow^ed the 
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married Mamie L. McGee in Kansas City, Kansas. Two children were born 
to them. Ralph P. and Josephine A. Tanner. 

RALPH BYRON BAIRD, director, was born at Johnstown, Penncylvania, in 
lfcb2, son of David and Tillie Jane Baird. His father was born in Ohio and 
his mother at Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Mr. Baird, who is staff photographer 
for the Kansas City Post, acquired his education in the schools of his native 
town and then turned his attention to photography, making a specialty of 
outdoor work and newspaper illustrating. He served three years in the 
Fourth United States Cavalry in the Philippines and in China, acting as staff 
photographer for Collier's Weekly during the entire period. He married 
Edith Willoughby November 30, 1910. They have a daughter. Betty Jane 
Baird. 

WARREN DOUGLAS MENG, director, was born in Lexington, Lafayette 
County, Missouri, September 1, 1875, son of Dr. John W. and Anna Carter 
Meng. the former a native of Callaway County, Missouri, and the latter of 
Richmond, Virginia. He attended Lexington high school, Wentworth Mili- 
tary Academy at Lexington and Bethany College, Bethany, West Virginia. 
He was twice elected public administrator of Lafayette County. Mr. Meng 
has done newspaper work in Kansas City and the South. At present he is 
connected with the news staff of the Kansas City Journal and is also general 
manager of the Meng Press Bureau. He is unmarried. 

EUGENE N. SMITH, director, was born at Leavenworth, Kansas, July 10, 
1669, son of T. K. and Annie A. Nugent Smith. After attending the public 
schools of Kansas and Kansas City, Mr. Smith chose the newspaper profession 
as his vocation. He is now assistant city editor of the Kansas City Post, 
with which paper he has been connected for two years. Prior to that he 
was on the staff of the Kansas City Star. He married Marion E. Ware in 
1910. 

CARL J. BARNEIT, director, was born at Medicine Lodge, Kansas, March 9, 
1882, son of W. W. and Eudora Barnett, both natives of Illinois. His early 
life was spent on the cattle ranges of Southern Kansas during the period 
w^hen fences were still far between and wild animals of the prairie were by 
no means uncommon. He acquired an education in the common and high 
schools of Knox/ille, Illinois, which he supplemented with a course at Brown's 
Business College in Galesburg, Illinois, from which he was graduated in 1901. 
Mr. Barnett now connected with the Kansas City Journal's news staff, has 
had a rathe* varied career, having been a cowboy, a farmer, a merchant, a 
United Stated soldier and a special correspondent before joining the local 
newspaper Irdternity. He married Dorathy B. Boone in Kansas City Sep- 
tember 18, tVl 1. 

WILLARD FISKE LOCHRIDGE. director until April, 1912. was born at 
Pawnee, Illinois, April 18, 1890. -on of William Riley and Mary Elizabeth 
Lochridge, both natives of Sangamon County, Illinois. His great-grandfather, 
John Lochridge. was an officer in the War of the Revolution. Mr. Lochridge, 
who is telegraph editor of the Kansas City Post, has been connected with 
newspaper staffs in Springfield, Peoria. Bloomington and Chicago, Illinois, 
and St. Louis, Missouri, and came to Kansas City two years ago as manager 
of the Mid-Western bureau of the United Press Association. His college edu- 
cation was acquired at Illinois Wesleyan University. Bloomington, Illinois. He 
is unmarried. 



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ROBERT THOMPSON VAN HORN 

Dean of the Newspaper Fraternity and, by Popular Consent, Foremost 
Citizen of Kansas City, Missouri. 




HE Grand Old Man of Kansas City, Robert Thompson Van Horn, 
newspaper w^riter, soldier, statesman and, above all, student 
and philosopher, was born May 19, 1824, in East Mahoning, 
Indiana County, Pennsylvania, son of Henry and Elizabeth 
(Thompson) Van Horn. 

Of Dutch and Scotch-Irish ancestry, Mr. Van Horn's imme- 
diate antecedents played a part in the Revolutionary and forma- 
tive days of America, sufficiently important to justify a volume, but in so 
limited space they could be done little justice and must be passed. 

Robert Thompson Van Horn was reared on his father's farm. His edu- 
cation was mostly of his ow^n making, since the only schooling offered w^as 
tliree months each winter in a subscription school in which only the elementary 
branches were taught. When fifteen years old Mr. Van Horn became an 
apprentice in the office of the Indiana, Pennsylvania, Register, where he spent 
four years niastering the printer's trade and studying in his spare hours. From 
1843 to 1855 he w^orked at his trade in Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio and 
Indiana, frequently varying his work by finding employment on the canal 
and river boats, always adding to his education. During this period he studied 
law^ in offices in Indiana, Pennsylvania. Hon. T. A. Plants, of Ohio, with 
whom he was associated in early practice, twenty years later was again asso- 
ciated with Mr. Van Horn in Congress. 

July 3 1, 1855, Mr. Van Horn came to Kansas City and began the career 
which cannot be separated from the city's progress. October, 1855, he 
bought The Enterprise, a weekly newspaper, paying $250.00 cash and assum- 
ing an obligation of a like amount. One year later the name vi'as changed 
fo The Kansas City Journal, and in June, 1858, it began issuing daily, and 
from that day until 1897, when Col. Van Horn retired after forty-one years* 
control of the oaper, he fought continuously for a bigger and better city. 

In 1856 the Kansas City Association for Public Improvement (later the 
Chamber of Commerce) was formed. Mr. Van Horn was an originator of 
the movement. Later he was elected alderman and in 1857 appointed post- 
master, serving until the Civil War. In April, 1861, Mr. Van Horn, a Douglas 
Democrat, advocated in his paper the support of the government. He was 



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elected mayor as a Union candidate. His election doubtless saved Kansas 
City to the Union, for although a hostile state government endeavored to 
strip Mayor Van Horn of power by taking the police from under his author- 
ity, the Federal Government, on Mr. Van Horn's suggestion, sent troops to 
Kansas City, ^vhich practically took the place of the police. 

It is impossible to so much as outline Col. Van Horn's services in the 
Civil War. From 1861 until 1864 he saw the most desperate service, and 
repeated promotion speaks of how well he faced the responsibilities thrust 
upon him. He was in the fight against General Price near Lexington, Mis- 
souri, the battle of Shiloh, in the operations about Corinth and as a volunteer 
aide to General Curtis, witnessed the Battle of Westport. 

In 1 862, while with his regiment, Col. Van Horn v\?as elected to the 
state senate and assisted in the election of John B. Henderson as United States 
Senator. In 1 864-65 he piloted the bill under which the Missouri Pacific 
Railway reached Kansas City. In 1 864 he was elected to Congress from the 
Eighth Missouri District, serving in the Thirty-ninth, Fortieth and Forty-first 
and in the Forty-seventh and Fifty-fourth Congresses (1865-71, 1881-83 and 
1895-97). From 1875 to -1881 he was collector of internal revenues in the 
Sixth Missouri District; served as a delegate to the Republican National Con- 
ventions of 1864, '68, '72, '76, "80 and '84. 

On December 2, 1 848, Colonel Van Horn married Miss Adela H. Cooley 
of Meigs county, Ohio. Four children were born to them, of whom Dick 
Van Horn, manager of the Van Horn estate and a former newspaper man, is 
the only survivor. 

In an address delivered March 10, 1905, before the Greenwood Club of 
Kansas City, J. M. Greenwood, superintendent of schools, and a long-time 
friend of Colonel Van Horn, has this to say of the latter's standing and ability 
as a newspaper man : 

"There have been four great newspaper men in the United States as 1 
now use the term, who formulated thought and molded public opinion: 
George D. Prentice, whose brilliancy at this lime is recognized by all who 
knew him personally, or in any manner since his death, have become 
familiar with his writings. He was a gifted genius. As a contemporary of 
his, but one who was his antipode, was Horace Greeley, who for years 
wrote those great, practical common-sense editorials which made the New 
York Tribune the greatest political force in the nation. He put in a direct, 
straightforward manner the convictions of his own conscience, and no other 
newspaper in this country has ever carried the masses with it as did the 
Tribune prior to and during the Civil War. Horace Greeley tried to tell 
the truth, and in this fact lay the power the Tribune held over the minds and 
hearts of a large number of the American people. The third is Samuel 
Bowles, whose editorials in the Weekly Springfield Republican caused the 
American nation to pause and reflect. He grasped great questions, and he 
handled them as a giant would take up puny things and toss them about, 
viewing them on every side as they were hurled through the air. 

"Colonel Van Horn is the fourth in this line. His editorials were put 
in strong, vigorous English, expressed in simple language. The thought was 
always bigger than the words that carried the thought, and better than 
Prentice, Greeley or Bowles, his illustrations were always drawn from simple 
and familiar objects, better adapted to the capacity of the mass of readers 
than the others employed, although Horace Greeley approached him the 
nearest in the use of language as an instrument to convey thought. This 
represents only one side of Colonel Van Horn's many-sided character. There 
has never been a man in the state of Missouri, or perhaos in the United 
States, certainly no one that I have ever read after or knew personally, 
that knew our public political men better than he knew them. Blessed with 
a retentive memory, a keen and discriminating analysis of human nature and 
the motives that play upon it, he is one of the best informed men in this 
particular line that our country has ever produced. At no time have 1 ever 
asked him about any one of our public men cither of the present or of its 
past political history that he has ever hesitated for a moment in giving a 
correct estimate of his ability and character. His mind is simply encyclopae- 
dic. His newspaper experience and public life fitted him completely for 
accumulating and massing information which he has arranged, digested and 
classified with wonderful skill." 



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HENRY L. JOST 

Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, and Formerly First Assistant Prosecuting 
Attorney of Jackson County. 




' ENRY L. JOST, mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, was born in New 
York City in 1874, son of Simeon and Lena Bahr Jest. He was 
left an orphan at the age of five years, and having no near rela- 
tives who wished to undertake his care, he w^as sent to a chil- 
dren's home. When he w^as seven years old, he, with a number 
of other homeless children, w^as sent West by the Children's Aid 
Society of New York. 
Arriving at his journey's end, young Jost found a home with a farmer 
near Hopkins, Missouri. Here he stayed and worked through the summer 
months and went to school in winter. When he grew old enough to "hire 
out," he did so, working as a farm hand and continuing his studies at every 
opportunity. In this way he put himself through law school, from which he 
graduated with honors in 1899. Then he came to Kansas City, where he has 
practiced ever since w^ith more than ordinary success. 

Mr. Jost was elected grand master of the Missouri A. O. U. W. in 1904, 
serving four years. He took charge when the organization was almost in a 
bankrupt condition, and left it financially able to take care of all its obligations. 
He was unanimously chosen grand master for a third term, but declined to 
serve longer. 

Appointed assistant prosecuting attorney of Jackson County, Missouri, 
January I, 1909, he served until April 15 of the same year, when he resigned 
to become first assistant counselor of Kansas City. He resigned this office the 
following September, and resumed his duties in the prosecutor's office, where 
he remained until the spring of 1912, when he entered the race for mayor on 
the Democratic ticket against Darius A. Brown, Republican, being elected by 
one of the largest majorities ever known in Kansas City. 

Mr. Jost married Alice Hanks, of Oak Grove, Missouri, in August, 1911. 
He is a member and a vestryman of the Episcopal church, belongs to the 
Knights of Pythias, is a Thirty-second degree Mason and a member of the 
Mystic Shrine. 



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DARIUS A. BROWN 

Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, 1910-12, Former City Attorney and Member 
of the Common Council. 




]ARIUS A. BROWN, elected mayor of Kansas City on the Repub- 
lican platform of 1910, is a native of Kansas, having been born 
in Jcffercon County, November 3, If 69, the son of Jacob M. and 
Emil'ne Brown. In June, 1893, he was graduated from the Uni- 
versity of Michigan, and February 8, 1899, married Helen Pres- 
cott. They have two children. 

Mr. Brown came to Kansas City in 1891 and from the first 
took a conspicuous part in the political life of the city. After serving for two 
years as city attorney, Mr. Brow^n became a court reporter in the Jackson 
County circuit court, in which capacity he served five years. For two years 
prior to his nomination for mayor in 1910, he served the city as an alderman 
and it was his stand for the rights of the people which brought him into the 
mayoralty race. Defeating Harry G. Kyle for the nomination by the Repub- 
lican party, Mr. Brown won the election over Judge Andrew F. Evans, Demo- 
crat, by a majority of about 2,500. 

The Brown administration was the first under the new charter and it fell 
to Mr. Brown to see that innovations, such as civil service, were carried out. 
Standing firmly for an impartial interpretation of the charter, Mr. Brown 
brought upon himself the criticism of the "bosses'* in his own party and, in the 
face of much opposition, made his administration one of the cleanest the city 
ever had. 

The work on the new Union Depot and the Twelfth Street Trafficway 
was begun during his administration. His stand for "what is square and 
right made a few bitter enemies and a host of close friends and admirers. 
He was unanimously endorsed by the Republican party in March, 19!2, for re- 
election, but was defeated by Henry L. Jost, Democrat. 

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BRUCE DODSON 

Prominent Fire and Casualty Insurance Agent and Originator 
of the Reciprocal Exchange. 




" RUCE DODSON, well known fire and casualty insurance agent. 
was born in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, October 13, 1866, 
the son of James T. and Lanah Hess Dodson. His father's an- 
cestors came from England during the seventeenth century, and 
his mother's came from Scotland and Germany during the early 
part of the eighteenth century. Both families settled in Pennsyl- 
vania. 
After being graduated from the high school in St. Louis, Missouri, w^here 
his parents located when he was thirteen years old, Mr. Dodson spent two 
years in the Kansas City School of Law. May I 1, 1692, he married Alta L. 
Moore of Columbia, Mo. They have two sons, Bruce, Jr., and Ralph. 

Mr. Dodson pasced his early boyhood days in Berw^ick, Pennsylvania. 
Then he lived for six years in St. Louis, subsequent to which he located in 
Kansas City, taking a position in the engineering department of the National 
Water Works Company, managed by Major B. F. Jones, v^hich company at that 
time owned the city water works plant. During his service with the water 
works company, he assi::ted in making the plans and building the Quindaro 
pumping station. 

For the last sixteen years Mr. Dodson has been engaged in the fire insur- 
ance business. His keen insight and accurate analysis of the basic principles of 
fire insurance, soon convinced him that a plan of insurance protection whereby 
those engaged in the same industry and subject to the same hazards could, by 
co-operation, furnish fire insurance protection to themselves, under ideal con- 
ditions and at a minimum cost. 

The Reciprocal Exchange, established by Mr. Dodson in 1900, handles 
the fire insurance for five of the principal industries of the United States, and 
has developed to success the method of reciprocal insurance protection. Mr. 
Dodson is also manager of the Equity Fire Insurance Company, of Kansas 
City, a regular stock company, established by him in 1909. 

Mr. Dodson is a member of seventeen business, social and golf clubs of 
Kansas City. He is an associate member of the Kansas City Press Club. 



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JOHN T. M. JOHNSTON 

President of the National Reserve Bank and a Financier of Note 
Throughout the Southwest. 




::|OHN T. M. JOHNSTON, president of the National Reserve Bank 
and the Bass-Johnston Banking Company, of Ashland, Missouri, 
was born in Boone County. Missouri, March 17, 1856, the son of 
John T. M. and Minerva Waters Johnston. His ancestors were 
Scotch-English, and prominently connected with the early his- 
tory of the country. His grandfather, Captain William John- 
ston, served the United States with distinction in the war of 1812. 
Mr. Johnston was educated in a theological seminary in Louisville, 
Kentucky, and married Florence Brooks, October 15, 1879. They have 
three children, J. L., Margaret and Dorothy. 

Having always commanded the confidence of every community in 
which he was acquainted, it was only natural that when Mr. Johnston en- 
tered the financial world, he at once took a commanding place. For years 
he has been one of the financial authorities in the Central West, being, be- 
sides president of the National Reserve Bank and the Bass-Johnston Banking 
Company, of Ashland, Missouri, a director in the National Bank, of Muskogee, 
Oklahoma, one of the strongest banking institutions in the new state. In 
Kansas City he is known as a man of unerring judgment in things financial 
and a progressive type of inestimable value to a growing city. 

Mr. Johnston, while not active in politics beyond standing always for 
strictly business in municipal affairs, is a Democrat in principles. He is a 
member of the Mid-Day Club and the Evanston Golf Club. 



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THOMAS J. HIGGS 

Assistant Prosecuting Attorney of Jackson County and Con- 
spicuous in Local Democratic Politics. 




HOMAS J. HIGGS, one of the prominent young attorneys of 
Kansas City and assistant prosecuting attorney for Jackson 
County, was born in Stormlake, Iowa, May 27, 1879, the son 
of Thomas D. and Susan (Kline) Higgs. Mr. Higgs' grand- 
father came from England and his mother's family was among 
the pioneers in Pennsylvania, settling about Welsh Run, where 
she w^as born. 
After completing the high school course in Stormlake, Mr. Higgs entered 
Buena Vista College in the same town and on his graduation entered Iowa 
College at Grinnell, Iowa, from which he was graduated in 1899. He then 
entered Harvard Law School and was graduated in 1902. Coming to Kansas 
City, Mr. Higgs was admitted to the bar in 1903 and was at first associated 
with the law firm of Ball & Ryland and later with Elijah Robinson. When 
Virgil Conkling was elected prosecuting attorney for Jackson County Mr. 
Higgs was made assistant and is now serving in that capacity. 

Mr. Higgs is a Democrat and has been conspicuous in recent campaigns, 
having handled the speakers' committee for both the city and the county. 
He is a member of the Kansas City Athletic Club, the Harvard Club of Kansas 
City, and is a member of the Masons. He was one of the attorneys assisting 
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JOHN ADAMS PRESCOTT 

President of the Board of Trade Office Building Company of 
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OHN ADAMS PRESCOTT. son of Addison and Mary Ann (Saw- 
yer) Prescott, well known financial and investment operator, 
was born in East Jaffrey, New Hampshire, October 2, 1866. 
Mr. Prescott's ancestors were prominent in the Colonial and 
Revolutionary Wars and his father was a member of the New 
Hampshire legislature and later a banker at Topeka, Kansas. 

General Prescott, of Bunker Hill fame, and William H. 
Prescott, the noted historian, belong to the same branch of this family. John 
Adams Prescott is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, through 
both his father. Addison Prescott, and his mother. Mary A. (Sawyer) Prescott. 
a member of the Society of Colonial Dames, who were lineal descendants of 
men who saw service in the war for American liberty and independence. 

After having begun his education in New Hampshire, in 1873 John \. 
Prescott went to Topeka. Kansas, with the family, where he completed the 
grammar and high school courses. He then entered the state university at 
Lawrence. 

Mr. Prescott was graduated from the University of Kansas in 1888, and 
on February 20. 1896, married Miss Grace Canfield. They have tw^o children. 
On leaving the university, Mr. Prescott engaged in the loan and security 
business in Topeka ; two years later he w^ent to Chicago, and later went to 
Boston, Mas.«achusetts. In 1894 he came to Kansas City and began the career 
which has made him one of the w^ell known men in the state. 

In handling the liquidation of the Lombard Investment Company, involv- 
ing over forty million dollars, Mr. Prescott made an effective bow to financial 
Kansas City, and from that day he was assured a permanent place among the 
financial experts. Leaving the Concordia Loan and Trust Company, of which 
he had been vice-president and general manager, Mr. Prescott began financial 
operations on his own account in 1899. 

Mr. Prescott is interested in a large number of successful mercantile, 
banking and railroad undertakings, prominent among them being the Joplin 
& Pittsburg Railway Company of which he is secretary, treasurer and a 
member of the executive committee; First National Bank of Kansas City, of 
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a director. Mr. Prescotl is also president of the Board of Trade Office Build- 
ing Company and sole owner and manager of the John A. Prescott & Com- 
pany, handling investments and liquidations. The offices of the company are 
in the First National Bank Building. 

The Jophn & Pittsburg Railway, mentioned in the foregoing paragraph, 
is one of the largest interurban traction systems in either Missouri or Kans:ir 
and is almost entirely a Kansas City project. Mr. Prescott was one of the 
originators of the idea and upon him devolved largely the task of organizing 
and financing tlie company that buih the road. With local resources and 
credit alone to back it, the entire system was fully completed before bonds 
were sold. Three and one-half million dollars w^as the sum required for the 
work and that it was raised largely among Kansas City capitalists speaks well 
for the standing of Mr. Prescott and his associates. 

A Republican in politics, Mr. Prescott has alw^ays been for everything 
which might benefit Kansas City. He has very materially aided in many of 
the municipal improvement campaigns and is known as a man of large views 
and conservative and dependable judgment. 

Mt. Prescott is a member of the Commercial Club, Knife and Fork 
Club, University Club, Kansas City Club, Country Club, Mid-Day Club, Repub- 
lican Club of New York City, and an associate member of the Kansas City 
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FRANKLIN HUDSON 

For Many Years Connected Prominently with the Printing and 
Publishing Business of Kansas City. 




RANKLIN HUDSON was born in Carroll County, Ohio. Septem- 
ber 16, IL4/, of English-German descent. He was fourteen years 
old at the beginning of the Civil War. When his father entered 
the service in Sherman's Brigade organized at Mansfield, Ohio, 
the boy insisted on accompanying him, although refused enlist- 
ment as being too small and too young. Three brothers had 
already enlisted in the service. 
In the fall of 1662, owing to serious ill health, the father, John Hudson, 
accompanied by his son, Franklin, returned to the home in Ohio. After one 
year of school work, in August, 1863, Mr. Hudson went to St. Louis, Missouri, 
when nearly sixteen years of age, and enlisted in Company C. Tenth Kansas 
Volunteers, Captain George D. Brooks commanding. In 1665, Mr. Hudson 
was commissioned a lieutenant in the Third United States Volunteers. His 
company having been ordered to Post Junction, Colorado, now known as Fort 
Morgan, he reported for duty and was detailed as post adjutant and remained 
in that position until the regiment was ordered back to the States and mustered 
out at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. 

Mr. Hudson then came to Kansas City and after a brief employment in the 
post office went into the business office of the Daily Kansas City Journal, where 
he remained for five years. For two years he was business manager of the 
Daily Kansas City Bulletin. He then entered into partnership with J. H. 
Ramsey and H. S. Millett in general printing business. This firm was in 
business for thirteen years until dissolved by mutual consent. Mr. Hudson 
then organized the Hudson-Kimberly Publishing Company and later purchased 
the stock of Mr. Kimberly, changing the name to the Franklin Hudson Pub- 
lishing Company, and is today the principal owner of the concern. 

A member of the Commercial Club since its organization. Mr. Hudson 
has served several terms as a director. He was President of the Board of Park 
Commissioners of Kansas City for two terms. He is a member of the Missouri 
Loyal Legion and is the youngest member on its rolls. He has three sons 
and one daughter. The eldest son, Allan T., is a prominent civil engineer in 
Guatemala City, Central America, and the second son, Kennett, is a merchant 
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FREDERICK WILLIAM FRATT 

President of Union Depot and Terminal Railroad Company and The 
North Kansas City Development Company. 




;|REDERICK WILLIAM FRATT. president of Union Depot Bridge 
and Terminal Railroad Company, The North Kansas City Devel- 
opment Company, and several other associated companies, was 
born in Racine, Wisconsin, July 10, 1859, of Scotch-American 
descent. His paternal ancestors settled in Albany County, New 
York, in colonial times. Many of them served in the War of the 
Revolution. His father, Nicholas D. Fratt, was born in Water- 
vliet, New York. His mother, Elsie Duffies Fratt, was a native of Scotland. 
Mr. Fratt graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1 882, a civil 
engineer. He married Miss Clara Macartney, of Hudson, Wisconsin, October 
16, 1884. To them was born one daughter, Marion. 

Mr. Fratt entered the railway service in 1879 with the Chicago & North- 
western Railway. In 1882 he became resident engineer and later chief 
engineer of the Wisconsin Central Railroad in Milwaukee. He resigned in 
1892 to become chief engineer of construction of the Missouri, Kansas & 
Texas Railway, Houston, Texas. June I, 1893, he became general man- 
ager of the Sherman. Shreveport & Southern Railroad, and when that property 
was absorbed by the M. K. & T. in 1896, accepted the position of superin- 
tendent of the Texas Midland Railroad, remaining two years. The next 
two years he devoted to street railw^ay and electrical work as superintend- 
ent and engineer of the Galveston City Railroad, resigning January 1, 1900, 
to resume w^ork with the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad as chief engineer 
of construction. On August 15, 1906, he left the M. K. & T. to accept 
his present office. 

Mr. Fratt is a trustee of the First Congregational Church; a member 
of the Sons of the American Revolution; Evanston Golf Club; University, Mid- 
Day and Commercial Clubs; president of the Knife and Fork Club and vice- 
president of the Engineers' Club. He is generally regarded as among 
the best of all-round railroad men. and while very busy with his regular 
duties, finds time to help w^ith public affairs. He has taken a lively interest 
in the project for improving and navigating the Missouri River, worked in the 
campaign of money raising for that project, and attended many of the Deep 
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FRANK A. FAXON 

President of the Faxon & Gallagher Drug Company 
of Kansas City, Missouri. 




RANK A. FAXON, known to Kansas City for his great work for 
the betterment of school and industrial conditions, is a native 
of Massachusetts, born in Scituate, May 29. 1848. a son 
of Asaph A. and Mercy Lincoln (Manson) Faxon. The Faxon 
ancestors came from England and settled at Brain tree, Massa- 
chusetts, early in the seventeenth century. Frank A. Faxon re- 
ceived his education in the common schools of his native place. 
When he was nine years of age, his parents moved West, locating at Law- 
rence, Kansas. At the age of fourteen, he took a minor position with the re- 
tail drug house of B. W. Woodward, Lawrence, Kansas, and has devoted his 
entire commercial life to that one house. At the age of twenty, he became a 
partner in the concern, the style changing to B. W. Woodward ^ Company. In 
1878 the wholesale drug house of Woodward, Faxon 6t Company was estab- 
lished in Kansas City. It was later changed to Faxon. Horton 6c Gallagher and 
at present the style is the Faxon & Gallagher Drug Company. Mr. Faxon is 
president of the Faxon 6c Gallagher Drug company. Kansas City, was a mem- 
ber of the council of Kansas City, 1888-1890; was president of the Whole- 
sale National Drug Association, 1893-1894, and was president of the Kansas 
City Commercial Club, 1889-1890, and is still a member thereof. Mr. Faxon 
was married November 9, 1871, to Kate Darlington of Chester County, Penn- 
sylvania, who departed this life in 1884. leaving three children, Henry D., 
Frank T. and Mildred. The sons are in business w^ith their father and the 
daughter is married. Mr. Faxon was again married January 9, 1892. to 
Frances Darlington, the issue being one daughter, Frances Darlington Faxon. 

Mr. Faxon is a philanthropist of note and i.s connected with all the charit- 
able organizations of Kansas City. It was he who, while President of the Kan- 
sas City Commercial Club, coined that w^ell known and often used phrase, 
"Make Kansas City a good place to live in." 

As a member of the school board, Mr. Faxon has done more than any 
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Vice-President of the Pioneer Trust Company 
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ONWAY FLOWERREE HOLMES, a native of Kansas City and 
for years a leader in financial circles of the West, was born 
September 17, 1865, the youngest son of Nehemiah and Mary 
Flower ree Holmes. His father was a native of New York State 
and his mother was a Virginian. 

Quite naturally, since Kansas City was his birthplace, Mr. 
Holmes has been connected with almost every progressive move- 
present generation and to him and his brother. Walton H., the 
city owes much. 

Conway F. Holmes attended the grade schools in Kansas City and re- 
ceived a business college education in Poughkeepsie, New York. Returning to 
Kansas City at a time when the grov^'ing city was sadly in need of transporta- 
tion facilities, he selected the field of street railroads and in I 886 became su- 
perintendent of the old Grand Avenue Cable Company. 

The early history of street railroads in Kansas City is a complicated one. 
Mr. Holmes and his brother brought about the consolidation of various lines 
and companies which eventually gave the city one of the greatest street car 
systems in the United States, the Metropolitan Street Railway Company. Of 
this new concern, Mr. Holmes became general superintendent and later general 
manager. He was also among the men who promoted and made a success of 
the Kansas City Electric Light Company. 

At present Mr. Holmes is president of the Kansas City Western Railway 
Company and vice-president of the Pioneer Trust Company, one of the strong- 
est financial institutions in Missouri. In 1885 he married Maude L. Gregory, 
daughter of Kansas City's first mayor. They have two children. Mr. Holmes 
is a member of the Commercial Club, Kansas City Club and Country Club, 
and every newspaper man who has worked in Kansas City knows hini as a 
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GEORGE STEVENSON, JR. 

President of the Great Western Life Insurance Company 
of Kansas City, Missouri. 



EORGE STEVENSON. JR.. president of the Gn;at Western Life 
Insurance Company, was born in Oswego, New York, Septem- 
ber 15, 1859, son of George and Maria Stevenson. His 
L ^^X^/^jj ^ y father's people w^ere Scotch and his mother's English, and they 
A^^^W/^K w^ere pioneers in New York State. George Stevenson, Jr., re- 

— ^^^"^ J ceived a common and high school education in Waterville, 

Kansas. In July, 1880, he married Mary R. Robbins. They have 
five children. 

Secretary Chappelle, in one of the Great Western news letters, had the 
following to say regarding Mr. Stevenson: 

"He's a pioneer — and that means a lot. New York claims him by birth, 
but Kansas and the great Central West claim him by adoption and by ties of 
strongest affection. 

"Mr. Stevenson first came west in *70 and settled in Northeast Kansas with 
his parents on a homestead. He became a land owner, general merchant and 
all-round business man. He knew his greatest assets would ever be a clean 
mind, an unimpeachable business record and a good character. How well he 
has adhered to these ideals is evidenced by his high standing? wherever he is 
known. 

"Mr Stevenson first became interested in life insurance by becoming a 
stockholder and policyholder in the Great Western Life and his natural ability 
and wide acquaintanceship made him a leader." 

In 1907 Mr. Stevenson was elected president of the American-Angus 
Breeders' Association of North America, at the national convention in Chi- 
cago, Illinois. During the same year he was elected and served as president of 
the American Royal Live Stock Show at Kansas City, and it was in that year 
that the show took its place as the greatest exposition of its kind in the United 
States. He is known throughout the country as a champion of the West and 
has been a valuable booster for many Kansas City projects. 

Mr. Stevenson, while having been interested in various commercial and 
banking concerns as a director or stockholder, now devotes his entire time and 
attention to the interests of the Great Western Life Insurance Company and 
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JACOB A. HARZFELD 

Prominent Attorney and President of the First Public Utilities Commission 
of Kansas City, Missouri. 




ACOB A. HARZFELD, the president of Kansas City's first Pubhc 
Utilities Commission, to which place he was appointed under 
Mayor Brown's administration, May, 1910, was born in Chicago, 
Illinois, January 30, 1877. His father, Albert Harzfeld, came 
from Bavaria, Germany, and his mother, Carrie Harzfeld, from 
Saxony, Germany. 

For years one of the leading men in the Republican party 
in Jackson County, Mr. Harzfeld came prominently before the public through 
his efficient handling of the affairs of the Public Utilities Commission and 
his fight to force the Kansas City Gas Company and the Metropolitan Street 
RaiWay Company to live up to the tenets of their franchises. 

Mr. Harzfeld is an attorney, a graduate of Northwestern University in 
1897. At the time this sketch was written, 1912, a Leap Year, he was not 
married. 

Member of the Jackson County Bar Association, the Mid-Day, Knife and 
Fork, City and Progress Clubs and one of the first associate members of the 
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JAMES ROBERT DOMINICK 

President of the Traders Bank of Kansas City, also of the Produce Exchange 

Bank of Kansas City. 




AMES ROBERT DOMINICK was born at Houston. Mississippi. 
December 9, 1863, and lived in that state until he grew to 
young manhood. His father owned a mill, a store and quite 
an extensive farm, and about one or the other the son found 
constant employment when not in school. He was graduated 
from the University of Mississippi in I 884, and was employed 
in a general store in West Point, Mississippi, the following tw^o 
years. He was attracted to Kansas City, Missouri, by its railroad facilities and 
tributary territory, and moved there in August, 1 8b6. He obtained a minor 
clerkship in the American National Bank, his starting salary being thirty dollars 
per month. During the following fourteen years he served the bank in various 
capacities, being promoted to the assistant cashiership in 1897 and to the 
cashiership in 1898. 

In October, 1900, Mr. Dominick and his friends organized the Traders 
Bank of Kansas City, and he became its president and has continued in 
this position to the date of this sketch. This institution started with a 
capital of $50,000, which was doubled the following year, and again 
doubled in 1908, at which time it was converted into the Traders Na- 
tional Bank. In 1908 Mr. Dominick and his friends also organized the Produce 
Exchange Bank of Kansas City, and he has served continuously as its president 
to the date of this sketch. This institution also started with a capital of 
$50,000, which was doubled the following year. Mr. Dominick was elected 
treasurer of the Missouri State Bankers' Association in 1906. was made vice- 
president in 1907, and president in 1908. He is a Democrat, a member of the 
Methodist Church, the Commercial Club and various local organizations. 

Mr. Dominick was married October 28, 1891, to Miss Gertrude Masten 
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CHARLES DAVID PARKER 

President of the United States Water and Steam Supply Company, 
Kansas City, Missouri. 




■ HARLES DAVID PARKER, the subject of this sketch, was born 
July 12, 1853, in Garden Plain, Illinois. He obtained his early 
education in the public schools of Whiteside County, Illinois. 
As a means of livelihood he followed farming first, then raising 
fine stock, buying and selling live stock, grain, etc., until De 
cember, 1887, v^'hen he located in Kansas City. Missouri. 

Immediately upon his arrival he engaged in the real estate 
and loan business, locating his offices in the New Nelson building, remaining 
there about one year, when he removed to the American Bank building, being 
its first tenant. He moved from this location in ! 893 to the Massachusetts 
building, remaining there until the completion of the new building for the First 
National Bank in February, 1906, where he is now located. In 1893 he added 
fire insurance to his business. The firm is known as C. D. Parker & Com- 
pany, the members being C. D. Parker and Herbert Parker, a brother. 

There has never been a movement for the betterment of Kansas City that 
Mr. Parker has not been found in the front ranks. He has been president of 
the Real Estate Exchange, president of the Implement, Vehicle and Hardware 
Club, president of the Commercial Club, a member of the Kansas City Athletic 
Club, the Board of Directors of the Provident Association for upwards of twelve 
years, and continues his membership in these associations as well as the 
Oriental Commandery Ararat Shrine, Archaeological Society, and the Ma- 
sonic Fraternity in which he has reached the Thirty-second Degree, and Sons 
of the American Revolution. Mr. Parker is also president and a large 
stockholder of the United States Water and Steam Supply Company, the 
largest steam fitting and plumbing supply house in Kansas City. 

On January 6, 1876, Mr. Parker married Amanda Sutherland in Fulton. 
Illinois. He has one son, Carl Sutherland Parker, born in Garden Plain, 
Whiteside County, Illinois, February 12, 1877. C. S. Parker married Susan 
Amsden of Abilene. Kansas. They have one sou. Charles David Parker, sec- 
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THOMAS J. ZOOK 

President and General Manager of Zook & Zook Live Stock Commisiion 
Company of Kansas City. 




HOMAS J. ZOOK, one of the most prominent and successful 
live stock commission men in the West, was born near Belle- 
ville, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, March 2, 185 5, the son of 
Menno K. and Barbara Kauffman Zook. 

Mr. Zook is president and general manager of the Zook & 
Zook Live Stock Commission Company. He has been in Kan- 
sas City eight years and for thirty- five years has been in the 
cattle business, having been with great success in the commission business in 
Indiana prior to his coming to Kansas City. 

In November. 1885. he married Ida B. Ewing. They have two children. 
Mr. Zook is a Republican and a broad minded citizen who takes a lively 
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JAMES R. PAGE 

A Corporation Attorney of Kansas City, Missouri, Who Has Attained 
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lAMES R. PAGE, one of the foremost attorneys in Jackson County, 
was born in SuHivan County, Missouri, April 15, 1876, son of 
Philip A. and EHza J. Page. He was literally drafted for service 
in Kansas City, since his record as pro:iecuting attorney for Sulli- 
van County from 1901 to 1905 was such that his reputaion 
'^^ w^ent throughout the state and brought him to the attention of 
the legal department of the Metropolitan Street Railway Com- 
pany of Kansas City. 

After joining the legal department of the Metropolitan, Mr. Page proved 
to be one of the best trial attorneys in civil cases in Missouri, and in five 
years of service he made a remarkable record, w^inning more than seven ty- 
five per cent of the cases in which he appeared. 

When the second trial of Dr. Bennett Clark Hyde, charged w^ith the murder 
of Col. Thomas H. Sw^ope, came up, late in 1911, Mr. Page was made as- 
sistant prosecutor for Jackson County, that he might lend his abilities to 
the prosecution. After the case was w^ell advanced, the disappearance of a 
juror caused a mistrial, but Mr. Page had demonstrated again his ability to 
handle a complicated case in a masterful way. 

A Democrat of very progressive views, Mr. Page has been a power in 
the party throughout the entire state. He is a married man and has two 
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JAMES FRANKLIN HOLDEN 

Vice-President of the Kansas City Southern Railway; also Director of the 
National Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Missouri. 




AMES FRANKLIN HOLDEN, son of James and Orilla Holden, was 
born in Whitby, Ontario, Canada. His father was a prominent 
banker and railroad builder, and many of the pioneer roads in 
the Dominion were his work. He died in 1882. 

James Franklin Holden, vice-president of the Kansas City 
Southern Railway, followed in the footsteps of his father and is 
now one of the best known railroad authorities in the United 
States. Aside from the vice-presidency of the Port Arthur Route, he served 
the C, O. & G. as vice-president from 1892 to 1901, the C, R. I. & P. as 
freight traffic manager at Chicago, from 1902 to 1906, and the Midland Val- 
ley as vice-president and general manager at Muskogee, Oklahoma, from 
1906 to 1910. 

Mr. Holden was educated in Whitby (Ontario) Collegiate Institute, from 
which he was graduated in 1877. He married Charlotte Erene Ellsworth of 
Peterboro, Ontario, and they have five children. 

A Republican in politics, Mr. Holden is exceptionally well advised on all 
the issues of the day. His time and labor, however, are spent on the projects 
with which he has become affiliated and he is anything but a politician. 

Mr. Holden is a director in the National Reserve Bank of Kansas City, 
and director in the Southern Surety Company of St. Louis. He is a member 
of the Hyde Park Methodist Church of Kansas City. 



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Judge of the Jackson County Court, Western District; Former Mayor of 
Kansas City^ Missouri. 




DWARD L. MARTIN, judge of the Jackson County Court from 
the Western District, and one of the early mayors of Kansas 
City, was born in Marysville, Kentucky, March 12, 1842, the son 
of William and Margaret Sheridan Martin. Mr. Martin's father 
came to America from Belfast, Ireland, in I 820. 

Mr. Martin was educated in Richardson Academy, Marys- 
ville, Kentucky, and December 10. 1861, married Mary E. Rick- 
ett, of Marysville. They have two children, both residents of Kansas City, 
Mrs. Thos. E. Gaines and E. R. Martin. 

When Mr. Martin started out for himself he went into the merchandizing 
and manufacturing business and met with unusual success. He has now 
retired from active business. From the first he took a conspicuous place in 
the political life of Kansas City. A Democrat of progressive views, he was 
elected mayor for the term of 187 5-74 and served the public as a member 
and treasurer of the board of education for twenty -one years. Tw^o years 
ago he was elected by a good majority associate judge of the Jackson County 
Court. 

Organizer of the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf Railroad, now the 
Kansas City Southern, Mr. Martin was its president until it was built into 
Port Arthur, Texas. He has been interested in numerous other enterprises 
of benefit to Kansas City and the state. 



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Agency Director in Kansas City for the New York Life Insurance 

Company. 




3ILLIAIVI HUGHES, well known as an insurance man and agcnLy 

director for the New^ York Life insurance Company, was born 

in How^ard County, Missouri, July 26, 1 b62, the son of J. Romeo 

and Prisciila Ann (Wiicoxson) Hughes. Mr. Hughes' ancestral 

stock is Welsh. His people seitled in Virginia in the Colonial 

days and later were pioneers in Kentucky. His grandparents 

settled in Howard County, Missouri, in 1816. 

Mr. Hughes was educated in Central College, Fayette, Missouri, and 

married Margaret Ricketts, December 21, 1895. They have one son, J. Rick- 

etts Hughes, born November 22, 1896. 

Beginning his business career in Texas as a cattleman in 1884, Mr. 
Hughes went over the trail with cattle from Jones County, Texas, to Custer 
County, Montana, in 1685 and remained in the cattle business there until 
1 892, when he returned to Howard County, Missouri, and engaged in the 
newspaper business as editor and proprietor of the "Democrat-Banner." He 
conducted that paper as a daily and semi-weekly until 1697. He began his 
life insurance work with the Equitable in 1697 and continued with that com- 
pany until 1902, when he associated himrelf with the New York Life Insur- 
ance Company at St. Joseph, Missouri. In 1903 he was made agency director 
of the company's branch office at Quincy, Illinois, in 1905 agency director 
of the company's branch office at Wichita. Kansas, and in 1906 agency 
director of the company's branch office in Kansas City. 

The New York Life Insurance Company was the first and only great 
life insurance company to express in a substantia! way its confidence in the 
future greatness of Kansas City and its trade territory by erecting in 1 687 
the New York Life building at Ninth Street and Baltimore Avenue. The 
interests of nearly twenty thousand policy holders who are insured for nearly 
forty million dollars are looked after through this branch office. 



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WILLIAM B. SCHNEIDER 

Wholesale Meat Dealer and General Broker in Packing 
House Products. 




ILLIAM B. SCHNEIDER, wholesale dealer in meats and broker in 
packing house products, was born in Chillicothe, Missouri, Octo- 
ber 27, 1875, the son of Andrew and Cassia Schneider. Mr. 
Schneider's father was a native of Germany and his mother was 
born in Pennsylvania. 

Coming to Kansas City in 1892, Mr. Schneider worked for 
various markets in the city until he was thoroughly posted on 
local conditions and he then went into business for himself, organizing the 
W. B. Schneider Meat Company, of which he is president, in 1900; later the 
company was incorporated. The general offices are in Suite 707, Sharp 
Building. 

Mr. Schneiders company deals in meats at wholesale, furnishing many 
of the largest hotels in the Central West with their entire supply. After 
the wholesale meat business had grown to unexpected dimensions, Mr. 
Schneider organized the Investment Brokerage Company, which has built up 
a gigantic trade in packing house products. 

August 7, 1901, Mr. Schneider married Mary M. Thurston. They have 
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PAUL JOHN LEIDIGH 

President of the Leidigh and Havens 
Lumber Company. 




1AUL JOHN LEIDIGH. president of the Leidigh & Havens Lum- 
ber Company, was born August 22, 1878, in Topeka, Kansas, 
the son of John H. and Sarah Shellabarger Leidigh, both of 
whom were natives of Pennsylvania. 

After completing the grade and high school courses, Mr. 

Leidigh entered Yale University and was graduated in 1901. He 

attended the Kansas City Law School during 1902 and then went 

into the retailing and manufacturing of lumber. From the first he made 

a success of the business and the Leidigh and Havens Company today is 

one of the largest lumber concerns in the state. 

January 29, 1907, Mr. Leidigh married .*\nne Warner. He is a mem- 
ber of the University Club, Kansas City Club, and Country Club, and holds 
a conspicuous place in the social and commercial life of the city. 

When questioned concerning his ancestors, Mr. Leidigh gave it as his 
opinion that he had the usual quota and assortment, but he was unable to 
say whether any of them w^ere ever hanged, though they had been mixed 
up in the troubles incident to the founding of the Swiss Republic. He was 
positive, however, that none of them carried William Tells bow or ate the 
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ALBERT MILLEN WILSON 

Prominent Physician and President of the Sphinx 
Publishing Company. 




LBERT MILLEN WILSON, well known physician and president 
of the Sphinx Publishing Company, was born in Aurora, Indiana, 
June 23, 1 854, the son of Thomas True and Sarah Speese Wilson. 
His ancestors came from England, Scotland and Germany, and 
w^ere pioneers in Kentucky directly following the Revolutionary 
War. His father and mother were both natives of Kentucky. 

After being graduated from DePauw^ University in 18 77, 
Dr. Wilson, in 1885, located in Kansas City, w^here he was graduated from 
the University Medical College in 1891. In 1876 he married Emma J, 
Dyke, and after her death he married Nelly Kreps July 15, 1884. He hai 
four sons and two daughters. 

Dr. Wilson has an extensive practice, but has found time to organize 
the Sphinx Publishing Company and edit the Sphinx Magazine, devoted to 
magic and sleight of hand. It is the only magazine of its kind published 
in the West and has a general circulation throughout the globe. 

Prior to coming to Kansas City Dr. Wilson was state secretary of the 
Y. M. C. A. in Ohio. For thirteen years he was professor in general medi- 
cine, materia medica, physiology and hygiene in the University Medical 
College of Kansas City. He is now, and has been for the past twenty-one 
years, professor of materia medica and therapeutics and general pathology 
in the Western Dental College. 

Dr. Wilson is a Scottish Rite Mason and a member of the Methodist 
Church. 



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General Insurance Agent. Prominent in All Municipal Improvement 
Campaigns of Recent Years. 

llHOMAS S. RIDGE was born in Kansas City November 26. 1859. 
beginning his career simultaneously with the city's municipal 
existence. The family history is so interwoven with that of 
Kansas City that our work would be incomplete without men- 
tion of the sterling integrity of the early merchant-trader, Judge 
Thomas A. Smart, Mr. Ridge's grandfather on his mother's side, 
who was elected probate judge by the early settlers, and of the 
untiring pioneer, Dr. Isaac M. Ridge, who, in I b48, cast his lot with this 
people, and for twenty years, with distinguished success, alleviated suffering 
by the practice of his profession. 

Thomas S. Ridge has been a factor in shaping the commercial and civic 
career of this community. When fifteen years old he began to earn his ow^n 
way, and in 1878. when, because of generally depressed conditions, tax 
deeds were about to be made to the family property, from his savings he 
furnished the necessary amount to redeem and preserve the estate. 

In 1878 Mr. Ridge's mother died and in 1879, after graduating from 
Kansas City's high school, he attended the State University at Columbia. In 
the fall of 1879 Judge Smart died, and from his estate Mr. Ridge inherited 
the money with which he finished his four-year university course, and the 
property which furnished the nucleus of his present possessions. Mr. Ridge 
in I 884 married Miss Effie Searcy of Boone County, with whom he had been 
associated in the university. He then entered commercially into the activities 
of Kansas City, first in the hardware and sheet metal manufacturing business, 
then with his brother in real estate, afterwards as president of the Central 
Bank, and in 1892 in real estate and insurance, in which latter business he 
is still engaged. 

Mr. Ridge has a most estimable w^ife and three sons. Dr. Francis I. 
Ridge, the eldest son, is a graduate of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, 
and is now in Belieview Hospital, New York, serving his second and last year 
as interne. T. S. Ridge, Jr., the second son, is attending the Irving School 
for boys at Tarrytown, New York, and William Searcy, the youngest son, is 
attending the Country Day School, Kansas City, preparing for a course in 
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REV. MICHAEL P. DOWLING 

Pastor of St. Aloysius Church and a Leading Member of the 
Kansas City Clergy. 




^EV. MICHAEL P. DOWLIKG was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, June 
14, Ib5l, and finished his college course in St. Xavier College in 
1669, at which t me he entered the Society of Jesus. He made 
/M^Vfe^^JN the usual studies of literature at St. Stanislaus Seminary, St, 
Loui£, Missouri; philosophy, theology, mathematics and other 
branches at Woodstock, Maryland, and St. Louis, Missouri. He 
was ordained priest by Archbishop Elder in the Cincinnati 
Cathedral, December 21, 1 8t 1 . For some years before and after his ordination 
he taught rhetoric, poetry and literature in the Jesuit Colleges at Cincinnat\ 
St. Louis and Detroit. His first position of responsibility was as president 
of Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, from 1885 to 1889. In 1889 he 
was transferred to Detroit as president of Detroit College, w^here he opened 
a new home in 1891. During his administration a debt of $12,000 was 
cleared off the parish school and the church was renovated at a cost of 
$30,000. 

The next four years Father Dowling spent as pastor of the Holy Family 
Church, Chicago, probably one of the largest congregations in the land. 

For less than two years, beginning in 1897, he was pastor of the Gesu, 
Milwaukee, one of the largest parishes in Wisconsin, where, in conjunction 
with the Rev. Banks Rogers, he worked wonders. Later he was removed 
to Omaha, where Creighton University called for a stout heart and an 
energetic hand. Distressing financial embarrassments caused his ecclesiastical 
superiors to deliberate about giving up the university. Father Dowling se- 
cured the co-operation and continued financial assistance of Count John A. 
Creighton, who had unlimited confidence in his ability. 

After the death of Mr. Creighton in 190 7, and the settlement of an 
estate which left over a million dollars to the university, Father Dowling, at 
his own request, was relieved of a charge, which he had held continuously 
for more than nine years during his second administration and thirteen years 
altogether. 

At the time of this writing, March, 1912, Father Dowling is pastor of 
St. Aloysius Church, Kan:£as City, Missouri, and charged with the building 
of Rock hurst College, under the care of the Society of Jesus. 



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One of the Leading Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights Attorneys 

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RTHUR C. BROWN was born in Logan County, Ohio, September 
18, 1878, the son of Thomas S. and Mary E. Brown. His father 
was a native of Ohio and his mother was born in Meford, Canada. 
IVlr. Brown, after obtaining a common and high school edu- 
cation, took up the study of law, following in the footsteps of his 



'^-^\i father, who for years 'was one of the leading patent attorneys in 
the Central West. He was giaduated from the Kantas City Law 
School in 1903, and June I of the following year married Grace C. Hawes. 
They have two daughters and a £on. 

In 1903 Mr. Brown succeeded to the business of his father, devoting 
his entire time to legal questions regarding patents, trademarks and copy- 
rights. He has been admitted to practice before the federal courts, and of 
the younger attorneys in Kansas City none is better known than Mr. Brown. 
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JOHN C. EGNER 

Noted Fire Fighter and Chief of the Kansas City 
Fire Department. 




:iOHN C. EGNER was born in Chicago. Illinois, November 29. 1660. 
His father, Charles Egner, was a native of Germany and his 
mother was born in Chicago. John C. came to Kansas City in 
1871. As a young man in 1879 he joined the John Robinson 
circus and remained with it four years. 

Early in the '80s Mr. Egner joined the Kansas City fire 
department and he has been in almost continuous service ever 
since, serving in almost every capacity until his promotion to chief of the 
entire fire fighting force, on December 17, 1906. In 1693 he went to London, 
England, as captain of the crew which, under George Hale, won the highest 
honors over the entire world. In August, 1900, he was again captain of a 
picked crew which proved the sensation of the exposition in Paris, France. 
He is known the world over as an authority on fire apparatus and organiza- 
tion of crews. 

September 15, 1887, he married Alice L. Clark. He has a daughter and 
a son. 

Mr. Egner is a Republican of liberal views. He belongs to the following 
lodges and organizations: Masons and Scottish Rite, Kansas City Turnverein, 
Fraternal Order of Eagles, International Association of Fire Chiefs, Loyal 
Order of Moose and the Kansas City Royal League. 



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GEORGE A. LOCK 

Manager of the Western Missouri Department of the Fidelity Mutual Life 
Insurance Company of Philadelphia. 




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EORGE A. LOCK, one of the best-known insurance men in the 
State of Missouri, was born in Barbourville, Knox County, Ken- 
tucky, July 19, Ifc80. the son of William and Ellen A. (Pogue) 
Lock. The Lock family followed Daniel Boone into Kentucky. 
The ancestry on the molher's side came from Scotland, w^here 
they had played such a conspicuous part in the religious wars 
that they were exiled. 
Lock was educated in Union College, Kentucky, from which he was 



graduated in 1900. June 12, 1902, he married Jerree Pollard, of Cincinnati. 
Ohio. They have two daughters, Helen May, and Georgia. 

After leaving college Mr. Lock went into the banking business in 
Earbourville, Kentucky, being assistant cashier of the First National Bank, 
one of the strongest financial institutions in the s'ate. January, 1907, he 
resigned his position to become manager of the central district of the Fidelity 
lege, and for three years was on the lecture staff of the University Medical 
transferred October, 1909, to lake charge of the company's big office in 
Kansas City and since his arrival here has met with remarkable success and 
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LOUIS C. BOYLE 

One of the Leading Attorneys of Missouri; Former 
Attorney General of Kansas. 




OUiS C. BOYLE, former attorney general of Kansas, now one of 
the leading attorneys in the Slate of Missouri, was born in Port 
Colborn, Canada, February 26, 1866, of Irish descent. His child- 
hood was spent in Port Colborn and Watford, Canada, where he 
acquired but a meager education. At the age of fifteen he went 
to Colorado to work in the mines, and there, doing the labor of 
a man, he saved and studied until he had qualified himself for 
an academic course at Ann Arbor, Michigan. 

In 1889 Mr. Boyle was graduated from the Ann Arbor Law^ School and 
was admitted to the bar in Michigan. He then went to Fort Scott. Kansas. 
A strong, liberal Democrat, he was elected by that party prosecuting attorney 
of Bourbon County and served four years, after which he returned to a 
general practice in Fort Scott. In 1896 he was drafted by the Democratic 
party as a candidate for attorney general of the state and was elected, serving 
until 1899. At the expiration of his term he came to Kansas City. 

From the day he came first to Kansas City Mr. Boyle has enjoyed an 
extensive law practice and his work in several celebrated criminal cases has 
attracted the attention of the press and legal fraternity throughout the coun- 
try. He has earned the confidence of the public and is one of the strongest 
men in the Democratic party of Missouri. 

In 1890 Mr. Boyle married Miss Gertrude Burson, of Garnett, Kansas. 
They have one son, George, and tw^o daughters, Katherine and Clara Louise. 
Mr. Boyle is a Scottish Rite Mason and a Shriner, an Elk and a member of the 
K. of P. order, and he has always been a good friend of the newspaper fra- 
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W. EUGENE KING 

President of the House Wrecking, Salvage and Lumber Company, 
Kansas City, Missouri. 




EUGENE KING, president of the House Wrecking, Salvage and 
Lumber Company, was born in Grundy County, near 1 renton, 
Missouri. Opportunity did not seem to be rapping in his vicinity 
and at the age of eleven years he was doing a man's work with 
a pick and shovel. He obtained a common school education 
i.i^i.t>(^^'-^ and clerked in a drug store at the same time. For nine months 
he went to school to Governor Carroll of Iowa. 
In 1888 Mr. King was clerking in a drug store at Twenty-ninth street 
and Southwest Boulevard in Kansas City. He later bought out the owner. 
He added two stores to his interests and found time to study medicine and 
iurgery in the University Medical College. He was graduated in 1897. He 
then entered into a partnership with Dr. E. B. Lewis, the well-known surgeon. 
He became a lecturer on surgery for the Medico-Chirurgical College, 
and for three years was a lecturer at the University Medical College. In 
late years he has lectured to the nurses of St. Joseph's Hospital, being a 
member of the hospital surgical staff. In 1894-95 he was president of the 
Kansas City Pharmacy Association. 

When the Bank of Commerce Building burned in 1907, Dr. King con- 
ceived the idea of forming a wrecking and salvage company, and in face 
of the opposition of his friends he bought the damaged building and wrecked 
it. He tore down the nine-story building in thirty-four days, which was a 
record. He established a yard and in a year had to obtain another. Later 
he added a third, and in 1910 opened the Bargain Lumber and Salvage Com- 
pany in Kansas City, Kansas. Dr. King is also president of the Kansas City 
Motor Truck and Transfer Company. 

Dr. King takes a great interest in politics and was once a candidate 
for the upper house of the council on the Democratic ticket. He has a fine 
country home just out of Independence and his hobby is standard bred bird 
dogs. He helped organize, and is a director of, the Kennel Show. 

In 1887 Dr. King married Miss Lyda M. Sheets, of Gallatin, Missouri. 
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WILLIAM THOMSON 

Prominent Attorney and Formerly President of the 
Kansas State Bar Association. 




ON. WILLIAM THOMSON was born in Linlithgow, Scotland, 
February 24, 1845, the son of Thomas and Marion (Somerville) 
Thomson. The family came to America and located in Chicago, 
Illinois, when William was five years old. Obtaining a common 
school education in Chicago, he entered Chicago University and 
was graduated in 1867 with the degree of B.A. His college 
work was interrupted by his enlistment in the One Hundred and 
Thirty-fourth Regiment of the Illinois Volunteers during the Civil War. 

After teaching school for a time Mr. Thomson returned to Chicago and 
entered the law office of Judge S. M. Moore and Barney Caulfield. He later 
completed his law study in the University of Chicago, was admitted to the 
bar in 1 869 and bes;an practicing with Robert W. Moore. 

In 1870 Mr. Thomson went to Burlingame, Kansas, and in that year 
was appointed probate judge of Osage County by Governor Humphrey. On 
completing this term he was elected prosecuting attorney. In 1878 he was 
made secretary of the Republican State Committee of Kansas, serving two 
years to the general satisfaction of the party. He was secretary of the 
Kansas delegation to the National Republican Convention of 1880. Governor 
Humphrey appointed him the first judge of Wabaunsee and Pottawatomie 
Counties in 1869 and in 1893 he was again elected to the place in the face 
of an overwhelming defeat of the Republican ticket. He retired from the 
bench in 1902. In 1898 he was admitted to practice before the United States 
Supreme Court and at that time had the endorsement of the Kansas bar for 
appointment as federal judge. He was elected president of the Kansas Bar 
Association, serving in 1897-98. 

Judge Thomson came to Kansas City in 1 904, establishing the firm of 
Thomson, Stanley & Price, Thomson handling cases involving corporation 
law, for which he is considered an authority throughout the country. He 
helped organize the Great Western Life Insurance Company and is now its 
general counsel. He is a member of the G. A. R., the Masons, Phi Delta Phi, 
and the Presbyterian Church. 

In 1874 Judge Thomson married Sarah E. Hudnall, of Astoria, Illinois. 
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Prominent in the Real Estate, Loan and Insurance Business of 
Kansas City, Missouri. 

DWIN RUTHVEN CRUTCHER. one of the organizers of the 
Kansas City Real Estate Exchange, was born August 29, !853, 
near Nashville, Tennessee. His ancestors came from Wales to 
Virginia in 1675 and were prominent in the Revolutionary 
War. Mr. Crutcher is a man who believes in taking a man for 
what he is worth rather than what his ancestors were and 
when asked for his ancestral tree remarked, "Well, all of them 
for three hundred years v^^ere highly respectable and quite honest." 

Mr. Crutcher spent his childhood in Louisville, Kentucky, and received 
a common school education there. Later he took a course in civil engineer- 
ing and at the age of seventeen was one of the official engineers of Louisville, 
in 1875 he married Laura Loving. They have three children, Edwin R. Jr., 
Loving T. and Wallace Mayo. 

After several years in the corn milling and grain buoiness, Mr. Crutcher 
moved to Kansas City in 1887. He had been here but a short time when 
he accepted the position of cashier of the Bank of Columbus, at Columbus, 
Kansas; later he became manager of the New York office of the Jarvis- 
Conklin Mortgage Trust Company, from which he went to the Chattanooga 
Savings Bank as cashier, returning to Kansas City in 1891 to engage in busi- 
ness for himself. 

With James B. Welsh, Mr. Crutcher organized the real estate firm of 
Crutcher & Welsh and from the first took a leading place in the commercial 
life of the city. Some years ago Mr. Crutcher reorganized his interests and 
the firm is now known as Crutcher & Sons with offices in the Commerce 
Building. 

A Democrat in politics, Mr. Crutcher has never been an aspirant for 
office, but has always responded and been a leader in campaigns for municipal 
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President of the Kansas City Bridge Company and a 
Prominent Civil Engineer. 




LEXANDER MAITLAND, JR., president of the Kansas City 
Bridge Company, was born on a farm near Richmond, Mis- 
souri, February 9, 1866, the son of Alexander and Mary Mait- 
land. His ancestors were of Scotch-Irish blood. His father 
was born in Toronto, Canada, while his mother was a native 
of Missouri. Mr. Maitland was graduated from the University 
of Missouri in 1 889, and in 1 896 married Miss D. Henderson. 
They have six children. 

Educated for the profession of civil engineering, Mr. Maitland held 
the chair of assistant professor of civil engineering in Missouri University 
during 1892-3. For five years immediately following he was assistant engineer 
in the bridge and building department of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Com- 
pany and from 1901 to 1905 he was contracting manager of the American 
Bridge Company. 

Mr. Maitland came to Kansas City in 1898. His reputation as one of 
the first civil engineers in the central west had preceded him and after leaving 
the American Bridge Company in 1905 he went into the Kansas City Bridge 
Company, of which he is now president. His offices are in the Orear-Leslie 
Building. 

A member of the Masonic Lodge, Mr. Maitland is also a member of the 
University Club, the recently organized Engineers' Club and the American 
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JOHN PUNTON 

Alienist and Neurologist, Former President of the University Medical 
College of Kansas City. 




^OHN PUNTON, one of Kansas City's foremost physicians, an 
alienist and neurologist of national reputation, was born in 
Dorking, Surrey, England, July 12, 1855, the son of William 
and Emily Gumbrall Punton. Both parents were natives of 
England. 

Coming to America in 1872, he obtained his early educa- 
tion in Jacksonville, Illinois. His first employment was in the 
druggist's department of the asylum at that place. He read medicine during 
his spare moments and \vas soon in a position to take a course in the Uni- 
versity of Michigan. In 1883 he was graduated from Miami Medical College, 
Cincinnati, Ohio. Returning to Jacksonville he practiced there a short time, 
then moved to Lawrence, Kansas, where he later served as city physician. 
His work there attracted the attention of the State Board of Charities and 
he was made assistant superintendent of the State Hospital for the Insane 
at Topeka, a place he resigned in 1887 to take a course in neurology at the 
Northwestern Medical College. In 1888 he came to Kansas City and has 
enjoyed a large practice from the first. 

Dr. Punton has served the University Medical College of Kansas City 
both in the capacity of director and president and as a lecturer as well. He 
was once president of the Academy of Medicine and a vice-president of the 
State Medical Association. He is also a member of the American Medical 
Association and the American Neurological Association. 

July 17, 1884. Dr. Punton married Miss Frances Evelyn Spruill of Jack- 
sonville, Illinois. They have four sons, Frank S., John, Jr., William Bruce, 
and Charles Wesley. Dr. Punton is a Thirty-second Degree Mason, Scottish 
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MATT R. SMITH 

One of the Most Extensive Dealers in Lumber in 
the Central West. 




]ATT R. SMITH was born in Decatur, Illinois. July 3, 1866. When 
Matt was six years old his father died, and quite naturally respon- 
Vfp?^! I sibilities came to the son when he was scarcely more than a 
boy. As a young man he started in the newspaper business 
and was at one time head of the circulation department of the 
Decatur Morning Herald, but he eventually found his field of 
activity in the lumber business where his success has been 
most remarkable. 

Today Mr. Smith is president of the Caddo River Lumber Company, 
capitalized at $450,000; president of the M. R. Smith Shingle Company, 
operating three mills in Washington state, with offices at Tacoma, and 
president of the M. R. Smith Lumber Company, which maintains a retail 
yard in Kansas City, Kansas, and is interested in seven retail lumber yards 
in Kansas and Missouri. 

Mr. Smith first started in the lumber business in Kansas, where he 
engaged in the retail trade in various cities. He came to Kansas City 
from Council Grove. Kansas, and knowing the business and the field, was 
not slow^ in arriving at a commanding place in the industry. 

In 1886 Mr. Smith married Lillian Odell. They have six children. 
Mr. Smith is a man of strong and pleasing personality and has been active 
in many of the campaigns for the improvement of commercial and industrial 
conditions in the city and state. Politically he is an Independent. 



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JOSEPH C. WIRTHMAN 

Druggist, and for Four Years a Member of the Upper House of 
the City Council. 




i^BS^rgtgg-' i OSEPH C. WIRTHMAN, who owns and operates four drug stores 
in Kansas City and who for four years has been a member of 
the upper house of the council, was born in Kansas City in 1865. 
Mr. Wirthman was graduated from the public schools of 
Kansas City and obtained a business education by attending 
night school at Spalding's Commercial College. Later he en- 
tered the Chicago College of Pharmacy, from which he was 
graduated in 1886. Immediately following his graduation he returned to 
Kansas City, and with his brother went into the drug business. In 1896 
Mr. Wirthman began business on his own account and now operates four 
of the largest and most successful drug stores in Kansas City. He has been 
connected with the drug business for thirty years, having first been associated 
with it, when a boy, in 1881. 

Besides building up a large business, Mr. Wirthman has found time to 
devote to affairs affecting the interests of the city, and four years ago the 
Democrats placed him before the people as a candidate to the upper house 
of the city council. He was elected by a large majority and his work in 
the council has been such as to bring him universal commendation. He is a 
member of the Commercial Club, Knights of Columbus and of the Kansas 
City Lodge of Elks. Mr. Wirthman is also a member of the Retail Druggists' 
Association. We is married and lives at 3 1 02 Troost Avenue. 

Mr. Wirthman is a man who has great confidence in the city's future 
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ORSON H. SWEARINGEN 

Attorney at Law and State Representative from the 
Second District. 




iRSON H. SWEARINGEN was born in Simpson County, Kentucky. 
July 29, 1871, the son of Benoni and Mary Hansford Whited 
Sw^earingen. In i 88 1 , with his parents, he came to Missouri, 
locating in Shelby County, where he received a common school 
education. He came to Kansas City June I 0, 1 892, determined 
to enter the legal profession. Having no funds to enable him 
to take up the study of law at once, he went to w^ork for the 
Schmelzer Arms Company. In September, 1895, he resigned this position 
and entered the University of Missouri, from which he was graduated in 
law June, 1897. He at once returned to Kansas City and began practicing. 

A Democrat of liberal views and known integrity, when James O. 
Beroth, representing the Fifth Ward in the city council, died, after serving 
scarcely a year of his term, Mr. Sw^earingen was elected in a special elec- 
tion and served the unexpired term with credit to himself and the city. 
He also served the county as assistant prosecuting attorney. 

Mr. Swearingen married Ruby Guy Patton October 2, 1899, at Clarks- 
ville, in Pike County, Missouri. They have one son, Clifford. 

As the representative in the state legislature from the Second District, 
Mr. Swearingen made a reputation that was a credit to himself and the Demo- 
cratic party, which elected him. As a member of the Commercial Club 
he has always taken a lively interest in industrial and commercial matters 
and repeatedly has gone to the front for conimercial organizations in the 
legislature, such as the Warehouse Men's Association, the Retail Grocers' 
Association and the City Club. 

Mr. Swearingen is associated with General Milton S. Moore, S. A. 
Handy and J. Harold Olson, attorneys, with offices in the Rialto Building. 



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ALBERT G. LESLEY 

President of the Lesley Garment Company, a Merchant of 
Wide Experience. 



LBERT G. LESLEY, president of the Lesley Garment Company, 
was born in Kankakee, Illinois, December I L 1865, the son of 
J. P. and Barbara Lesley. Both parents were natives of Germany. 
With a common school education, Mr. Lesley began his 
business career as cash boy in a dry j^oods store in Lafayette. 
2^^r^^ Indiana, and has worked his way through all departments of the 
mercantile business. His wide experience has well qualified him 
to be the head of a large concern and it was only natural that his general 
knowledge of merchandising should bring him success. At various times he 
has held responsible positions in the buying departments of large concerns in 
Nashville, Tennessee, Indianapolis. Indiana, St. Louis and Kansas City. He 
came to Kansas City in September, 1 909. 

October 22, 1889, Mr, Lesley married Mary M. Ruger. They have one 
son. Mr. Lesley is a member of the Elks and the Knights of Columbus. 



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EDWIN L. WINN 

General Contractor, President of the E. L. Winn 
Construction Company. 




DWIN L. WINN, president of the E. L. Winn Construction Com- 
pany, 1211 Scarritt Building, was born July 8, I 865, in Bowling 
Green, Missouri, the son of William and Jane Winn. 

Mr. Winn's success has been that which the American 
people take pride in designating "self made." With a common 
school education, Mr. Winn learned the brick mason's trade. In 
^ t 1886 he came to Kansas City from Bowling Green and started 
into business as a general contractor, and his success was exceptional. In 
more recent years he has constructed some of the best buildings in Kansas 
City, among them being the new addition to the Baltimore Hotel, the Met- 
ropolitan Power House, the Studebaker Building in the West Bottoms, the 
Smith Brothers Manufacturing Company's building in the East Bottoms, and 
the beautiful stone building on the Jackson County Farm. 

For six years Mr. Winn represented the Fourteenth Ward in the city 
council, having been elected on the Republican ticket. In 1891 he married 
Mamie Turner. They have one son and two daughters. 

Mr. Winn is one of the men who have shown their faith in Kansas City's 
future. He has been prominent in all the campaigns for municipal improve- 
ment and is heavily interested in real estate. At present he is handling 
the Honeysuckle Hill Addition south of the city proper, a beautiful residence 
tract of about thirty-three acres. 



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CHARLES BOYNTON RIGGS 




General Manager Oldsmobile Company, in Charge of AH 
Southwest Territory. 

HARLES BOYNTON RIGGS, general manager of the Oldsmobile 
Company and one of the big men in the automobile industry 
of the Southwest, was born in Baldwin, Kansas, during the 
border warfare days of 1864. He is the son of James Henry 
and Louise Starr Riggs. His father was a successful farmer 
and a pioneer in Kansas, having come to the state in 1856, 
making the trip up the Missouri by boat to Westport Landing. 
The senior Riggs was a native of New York and his wife came from Ohio. 

Mr. Riggs says he was graduated from the big school of "hard experi- 
ence" and the lessons he was taught were lessons that are never forgotten. 
He left the farm when fifteen years old, and his first job in town was pushing 
a truck. When sixteen years old he had learned telegraphy and was agent and 
operator at a small station on the Santa Fe system. Two years later he was 
made traveling auditor, and when but twenty-two years old had been advanced 
to the responsibilities of chief train dispatcher. 

Resigning from the transportation department of the Santa Fe in 1898, 
Mr. Riggs accepted a position in the sales department of the John Deere 
Plow Company of Kansas City, and in 1909 was made manager of the Olds- 
Oakland Motor Company. One year later he was made manager of the Olds 
works, Lansing, Michigan, and in 1911 was made general manager of the 
Oldsmobile Company, in charge of all the Southwest territory. 

In 1 892 Mr. Riggs married Alice Isham of Coffey villa, Kansas. They 
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ROBERT L. WINTER 

Prominent in the Real Estate, Investments and General Loan Business of 
Kansas City, Missouri. 




ROBERT L. WINTER, one of the most prominent real estate dealers 
in Kansas City, was born in Middleton, Canada, July 3, 185 7, the 
son of Thomas B. and Martha (Smith) Winter. Mr. Winter's 
father was born in England but went to Canada at an early age. 
(^ r JIH^C^S^ ^^" W'ri*^'' received a common and high school education 

\j \yHV^<^y\ in Strathray, Ontario, and then started into commercial life for 
himself. He went into the mercantile business in Port Huron, 
Michigan, but being a shrew^d reader of municipal possibilities, he decided 
that Kansas City presented a remarkable field and in 1882 he moved to this 
city and w^ent into the real estate and loan business, the firm being known 
as the G. F. and R. L. Winter Company. In 1906 G. F. Winter retired and 
from that date the business has been carried on under the name of R. L. 
Winter and Company. 

January 20, 1887, Mr. Winter married Mary E. Cook. They have one 
son, Howard R. 

Mr. Winter's history cannot be separated from the remarkable history 
of Kansas City real estate, for he has been interested in every material exten- 
sion the city has made since 1882. He has handled many large estates for 
non-resident owners; the management of the New York Life Building has 
been in his hands for twenty -tw^o years. Mr. Winter's specialty has been 
subdivisions and he has platted and sold over 2,000 acres in Kansas City 
lots. Goodrich Addition, Coleman's First Addition, Sheidley Park, Gates' 
Addition, Fairmount Park, Winter Park and Lincoln Park are but a few 
of the real estate extensions \vhich he carried to complete success. 

Mr. Winter is a member of the Mid-Day Club, Kansas City Club, Com- 
mercial Club and the Kansas City Automobile Club. He is among the first 
men in the city to respond in every campaign for municipal improvement. 



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ALBERT W. PEET 

Secretary and Treasurer and General Manager of Peet Brothers 
Manufacturing Company. 




LBERT W. PEET, of Peet Brothers Manufacturing Company, a 
firm known throughout the world, and one that has aided materi- 
ally in placing Kansas City on the commercial map, was born in 
Cleveland, Ohio, in 1871, the son of William and Nettie May 
Peet. His father was born in England, and his mother, who was 
of German descent, was a native of Maine. 

After completing the common schools, Mr. Peet attended 
St. James Military College and then began his education in business, starting 
in as an office boy with Peet Brothers. He worked his way, without aid or 
preference, until he was qualified to take a prominent place in the manage- 
ment. Today he is secretary and treasurer and general manager of the big 
concern which manufactures fine soaps, is president of the St. Joseph 
Ice and Manufacturing Company and treasurer of the Moss Grain Company. 
All of these concerns are among the most successful in their respective fields. 
Mr. Peet married Orelle Smith and they have two daughters and a son. 
Mr. Peet has been prominent in all the movements of recent years which 
have aimed to make Kansas City the commercial center of the Central West, 
and has repeatedly donated time and money for the city's good. He is a 
Republican of liberal views and a man who commands an extraordinary circle 
of friends. 



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JAMES R. SUTHERLIN 

President of Sutherlin and Company, 
Municipal Bond Dealers. 




^AMES R. SUTHERLIN, president of Sutherlin and Company, doing 
a general business in municipal bonds, was born in Marshall, 
Missouri, May 8, 1885, the son of R. M. and Leila B. (Crutcher) 
Sutherlin. His father was a native of Cooper County, Missouri, 
and his mother was born in Bourbon County, Kentucky. 

Mr. Sutherlin received the grade school education and then 
finished the high school courses in Chicago, Illinois. August 28, 
1907, he married Miss Sombart of Boonville, Missouri. They have one 
daughter. 

Of the younger men in Kansas City, no one has made a more gratifying 
success. With eleven years of experience in the municipal bond business, 
Mr. Sutherlin has gained an experience which has given him exceptional 
judgment and foresight in municipal financial affairs. As president of 
Sutherlin and Company, much of the responsibility of management fails to 
him, and that he is fully qualified and capable of shouldering responsibility 
has been fully demonstrated. 

Mr. Sutherlin is a member of the Illinois Athletic Club of Chicago, and 
of the Mid-Day Club of Kansas City. In politics he is a Democrat. 



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HARRY FRIEDBERG 

Attorney at Law and Former Assistant Prosecuting Attorney 
of Jackson County, Missouri. 




TARRY FRIEDBERG, one of the younger attorneys in Kansas City 
whose success is already assured, was born in Kansas City, Kan- 
sas, in 1875, the son of Benjamin and Anne Friedberg. His 
father, one of the first white men in Kansas City, Kansas, having 
settled there in 1 869, built and owned the Consolidated Electric 
Light and Power Company, which for years furnished light for 
Kansas City, Kansas, Rosedale and Argentine. 
Mr. Friedberg obtained his education in Harvard University, from which 
institution he was graduated in 1897. He received his law degree in 1901 
at the Kansas City School of Law. Since then he has been one of the leading 
young men in the Democratic party of Jackson County. 

in 1906 Mr. Friedberg was the Democratic candidate for city attorney 
and served the county during 1908-9 as assistant prosecuting attorney. Dur- 
ing the flood of 1903 Mr. Friedberg rendered the city great service as chair- 
man of the committee of the Relief Association. He succeeded Herbert S. 
Hadley, present Governor of the State, as chairniian of the committee having 
charge of Convention Hall under A. R. Meyer, and for four weeks had direct 
supervision of the work conducted from (Convention Hall and personally 
supervised the distribution of household goods under W. H. Holmes. For 
two years he was assistant manager of the Kansas City Electric Light Company 
under Bernard Corrigan. 

Always ready to go to the front for Kansas City and the State, Mr. 
Friedberg has won a circle of friends and admirers unexcelled by those of 
any other young man of the city. He is not married and is a member of the 
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JAMES WADDELL MALCOLMSON 




Well Known Throughout the Country as an Expert Mining Authority 
and Consulting Engineer. 

^AMES WADDELL MALCOLMSON, one of the foremost mining 
engineers of the country, was born in Dover, Kent, England, 
October 12, 1866, the son of James and Cherrie Malcolmson. 
Both parents \\'ere natives of County Down, Ireland. He is 
the first of the family to be a pilgrim to America and his suc- 
cess has been remarkable. 

After receiving the common school education, Mr. Mal- 
colmson entered the Royal School of Mines in London, England, and w^as 
graduated from that institution in 1889. December 22, 1888, he married 
Katherine Haden Krause. They have six children, James Donovan, William 
John, Oliver Krause, David Krause, Robert Joseph, and Cherrie Katherine. 
From 1892 to 1902 Mr. Malcolmson was engineer and general manager 
of the Mining Department of the Consolidated Kansas City Smelting and 
Refining Company, of which August R. Meyer was president. He is now 
the consulting engineer for the Lucky Tiger Combination Gold Mining Com- 
pany, one of the richest mining companies in the world, with valuable mines 
in Old Mexico, the company being controlled by Kansas City capital. 

In politics Mr. Malcolmson should be classed as an Independent, always 
standing for progression whether it be Republican or Democratic, He is a 
member of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy of London, American 
Institute Mining Engineers of New York, Mining and Metallurgical Society 
of America, Institute of Civil Engineers of London, and belongs to the Engi- 
neers' Club of New York and the University Club of Kansas City. He lives 
at 3 728 Main Street, and his office is at 1012 Baltimore Avenue. 



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CHARLES FREDERICK HUTCHINGS 

Director Pioneer Trust Company and Vice-President and General 
Counsel for the Kansas City Western Railway Company. 




HARLES FREDERICK HUTCHINGS. a director in the Pioneer 
Trust Company and vice-president and general counsel for the 
Kansas City Western Railway Company, was born in North Bar- 
ton, Tioga County, New York, May 25, 1846, the son of Samuel 
Dean and Betsey Rounseville (Ashley) Hutchings. The ancestral 
stock was of the earliest colonists in New England and many of 
them were conspicuous in the Continental Army during the 
American Revolution. 

Mr. Hutchings was educated in Waverly Institute, from which he was 
graduated in 1863. January 14, 1869, he married Larooka Thornton 
Kinney. They have two sons and a daughter. 

When Mr. Hutchings first came west he settled in Kansas, where he 
w^as a representative in the Legislature in 1873 and a member of the law 
examiners of the Kansas Supreme Court from 1903 to 1908. 

Mr. Hutchings is a Democrat and has taken much interest in the indus- 
trial questions which have confronted the city in recent years. He is a 
man of recognized ability, and after becoming associated with the men who 
conceived and completed the first electric suburban railroad system out 
of Kansas City he w^as made vice-president and general counsel for the 
company. 



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GEORGE C. HALE 

Member of the Fire and Water Board, 
Kansas City^ Missouri. 



7^^^7^^^~1 EORGE C. HALE, known the world over as an authority on 
/rylfx ^'■^ fisJi*^'"g devices and member of the Board of Fire and Water 

lS\)'^Ci\L Commissioners of Kansas City, Missouri, was born in St. Law- 

l\V^\/!J (A ! V rence County, New York, October 28, 1849. 
Xj^^WyK In every sense of the word, Mr. Hale is a self-made man, 

^**^^-^y^^ 1 having fought for his education and success from the very 
first. His father, Siras G. Hale, was a native of Connecticut, 
and his mother, Cornelia Hale, was born in New York. His grandfather 
was Colonel C. H. Hale, a descendant of Nathan Hale of Revolutionary War 
fame. 

The present efficiency of the Kansas City Fire Department is, in a large 
measure, due to Mr. Hale, who was the chief of the department from 1881 
to 1902. During his time at the head of the department Mr. Hale's work 
brought him to the attention of the whole civilized world. He represented 
the United States at the International Fire Congress in London, England, in 
1893, and in Paris, France, in 1900, taking from Kansas City a fully equtpped 
fire company, including trained horses, apparatus and life saving devices, 
and at each place his company won the highest honors. 

For several years after his retirement as chief he devoted his time to 
the manufacture of fire apparatus and supplies. With the beginning of 
the Brown administration he was called to the Board of Fire and Water 
Commissioners, where he has had practically full control of the fire depart- 
ment. By profession, Mr. Hale is a mechanical engineer, and he has invented 
many fire fighting devices now used throughout ihe country. He is married 
and has one daughter, Mrs. O. C. Weisner. 



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General Contractor and Builder of Office and 
Public Buildings. 

GODFREY SWENSON, one of the principal general contractors in 
Kansas City, was born in Wimmerby, Sweden, in which city he 
received his early training and education. His father. Sven 
Swenson, was a builder of railroads and heavy construction work 
and he saw to it that his son knew the business thoroughly 
before the younger man departed for America. 

Mr. Swenson came to Kansas City in November, 1896, and 
from the first his services were in demand. He later organized the Swenson 
Construction Company, of which he is president and treasurer. He has had 
direct supervision of the building and construction work of many of the largest 
buildings in the Southwest, among them being the Westport High School, 
Kansas City Live Stock Exchange, the Elms Hotel at Excelsior Springs, the 
Barnes Building of Muskogee, Oklahoma, a ten-story fireproof structure, one 
of the most beautiful and substantial buildings in Oklahoma. Mr. Swenson's 
company operates throughout the South and West. 

In 1899 Mr. Swenson married Hannah Johnson. They have a son, 
Clarence, and a daughter, Florence. Mr. Swenson is a Thirty-second Degree 
Mason and a Shriner, a member of the Commercial Club and a director of the 
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JOHN SULLIVAN 

Attorney and Chairman of the Legal Board of the Modem 
Woodmen of America. 




]OHN SULLIVAN, attorney, for twenty -two years located in the 
New York Life Building, was born in Louisville, Kansas, Feb- 
ruary 10, 1864, the son of P. and Anna Sullivan. His father 
was a native of Ireland and his mother was born in Austria. 

Mr. Sullivan was graduated from Kansas University in 1687 
and from the first year of his residence in Kansas City has been 
a popular and successful attorney. February 18, 1891, he mar- 
ried Marguerite St. Clair McClure at Lawrence, Kansas. They have three 
children, Elizabeth, Helen, and Vivian. 

Always taking a keen interest in fraternal organizations, Mr. Sullivan is 
now chairman of the legal board of the Modern Woodmen of America and 
is one of the organizations national lecturers. He represented the Treasury 
Department of the Federal Government during the construction of the Federal 
Building in Kansas City and is one of the most prominent Democrats in the 
state, where he has repeatedly campaigned in behalf of his party. 

For ten years Mr. Sullivan was associated with Thomas M. Spofford in 
the practice of law^. Since that time he has been alone and today has a select 
clientele, the equal of that of any other attorney in the city. He is a man 
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R. EMMETT O'MALLEY 

Member Upper House City Council; Manager for William A. Stickney 
Cigar Company. 




EMMETT O'MALLEY, Democratic member of the upper house 
of the city council and manager for the William A. Stickney 
Cigar Company, was born in Leavenworth, Kansas, April, 1874, 
the son of Patrick Henry and Mary L. O'Malley. His father 
was born in Maine and was of Irish antecedents and his mother 



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school course and started his business career as a 
brokerage office. In 1901 he married Miss Jessie 
one son. 

Being a Democrat of sound principles, Mr. O'Malley was made the 
candidate of the party for the upper house and was elected by a good 
majority, going into office with the beginning of the Crittenden administra- 
tion. He has been prominent in the councils of his party for several years, 
and during the Brown administration brought himself before the people by 
his remarkable fight to prevent a switching combination in the district known 
as the "North Side." His work was of such a popular character that he 
was mentioned as a candidate for mayor on the Democratic ticket in 1912, 
but refused to allow his friends to bring him before the convention. 

Mr. O'Malley is a Past Exalted Ruler of Kansas City Lodge No. 26, 
B. P. O. E., a member of the Eagles, Knights of Columbus, the Kansas City 
Club, Kansas City Athletic Club, Mid-Day Club, Railroad Club and Elm Ridge 
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WILLARD MERRIAM 

Real Estate and Insurance, Firm of Merriam, Ellis & Benton, 
Kansas City, Kansas. 




ILLARD MERRIAM, one of the best known real estate and insur- 
ance operators in Kansas, was born in Berlin, Wisconsin, January 
20, 1864, the son of Horace and Eliza Wright Merriam. His 
parents w^ere New^ Englanders, the father being a native of Ver- 
mont and his mother from New^ York state. 

Mr. Merriam's success has been "self made" in the sense 
that he had to go out and get everything, even to his educa- 
tion. That he was fully capable of taking care of himself in the face of 
adverse conditions is clearly shown by his enviable reputation today among 
real estate and insurance men in the Central West. 

Besides his interest in the firm of Merriam. Ellis & Benton, Mr. Merriani 
is active in the management of the Fidelity Building and Loan Association, 
of which he is president. He is now or has recently been interested in the 
Fidelity Mortgage Company, president of the Viking Refrigerator and Manu- 
facturing Company, president of the Merriam Land Company and president 
of the Real Estate Investn^ient Company, not to mention several minor inter- 
ests which have proved successful. The Merriam, Ellis & Benton firm is 
one of the largest real estate concerns in Greater Kansas City and their 
insurance department ranks with the largest between St. Louis and San 
Francisco. 

Mr. Merriam is a Republican. In ! 889* he married Bessie Burtner. 
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FRANK G. BACKSTROM 

Merchant Tailor; President of the Custom Cutters 
Association of America. 



RANK G. BACKSTROM. one of Kansas City's first merchant 
tailors, was born in Sweden June 28, 1867. the son of Elias and 
Eva (From) Backstroni. For seven years he has been one of 
the best known tailors in Kansas City, the firm being known as 
Backstrom-Ferguson, located at I 1 04 Baltimore Avenue. He is 
also president of the International Custom Cutters' Association 
of America. 
Mr. Backstrom is a Republican, but has never been a candidate for 

office, although he takes a lively interest in city affairs. He was married in 

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One of the Most Prominent Liverymen and Horse Dealers 
in Kansas City. 




OHN W. SNODDY, who for sixteen years has been one of the 
foremost liverymen in Kansas City, was born in Carrollton, 
Missouri, in 1864, the son of John T. and Sallie Wade Snoddy, 
his father being a native of Kentucky and his mother having 
been born in Virginia. 

Mr. Snoddy obtained the usual common school education, 

and from the first showed a liking for horses. He came to 

Kansas City in 1887 and went into the livery and horse trading and selling 

business, with the result that he has an extensive business, which has steadily 

increased, until today it is one of the largest in the city. 

In 1894 Mr. Snoddy married Iva Linton, of Kansas City. They have 
one son, John Harold. Mr. Snoddy is a Democrat and a man who has built 
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WALTER LITTLEFIELD 

Special Master in Chancery, United States Circuit Court, and 
Successful Attorney. 




ALTER LITTLEFIELD, attorney and special master in chancery 
by appointment of the United States Court of the Eighth Cir- 
cuit, was born on a farm in Lagrange County, Indiana. January 
6, 1845, the son of A. M. and Hannah Emerson Littlefield. 
September 15, 1869, Mr. Littlefield married Ellen E. Aldrich. 
They have one daughter, Mrs. Frances L. Stoddard. 

Mr. Littlefield was well known throughout the Central West 
when he came to Kansas City in 1903. He commenced his law practice 
in Ottawa, Kansas, and met with signal success. He served Franklin County, 
Kansas, as prosecuting attorney and later was called to the legal department 
of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, with which company he 
remained for fourteen years. Later he became attorney general for the 
St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad in St. Louis. 

On coming to Kansas City Mr. Littlefield became associated with Atwood 
and Hooper, lawyers, the firm taking the name of Atwood, Littlefield & 
Hooper and becoming one of the leading firms in the city. 

Republican in politics, Mr. Littlefield has always been considered one 
of the first attorneys of the Central West and his appointment as special 
master in chancery to the United States Circuit Court was a small measure 
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HOWARD VANDERSLICE 

President Vanderslice-Lynds Mercantile Company; Director 
Lucky Tiger Mining Company. 




lOWARD VANDERSLICE, president of the Vanderslice-Lynds 
Mercantile Company and prominently connected with several 
commercial concerns in the Central West, was born in George- 
town, Kentucky, April 8, 1853, the son of Thomas J. and 
Sarah J. (Birchfield) Vanderslice, both natives of Kentucky. 
His grandfather. Major Daniel Vanderslice, played an important 
part in the development of the Central West; in 1822 he joined 
an exploring expedition into Illinois. While encamped on Rock Island in 
the Mississippi River he met the famous chiefs, Black Hawk and Keokuk. 
Later Major Vanderslice purchased the Kentucky Sentinel at Georgetown 
and aided in the election of Van Buren and Johnson in 1836. The follow- 
ing year he was appointed special agent for the removal of the Chickasaw 
Indians to their new lands west of the Mississippi. 

When Major Vanderslice went west, Thomas J., the son, w^ent with 
him, and the family was established in Doniphan County, Kansas, in August, 
1853, Howard being but an infant. The boy grew up in an atmosphere 
which bred self-reliance and courage. His elementary education was obtained 
in Highland University, Highland, Kansas. At the age of nineteen he accepted 
the place of operator and agent at Iowa Point, Kansas. In 1881, with 
Milton Emmerson, he began dealing in grain at White Cloud. 

In 1890 Howard Vanderslice came to Kansas City to engage in the 
feed and ice business, forming a partnership with John H. Lynds, the firm 
name being Vanderslice-Lynds Mercantile Company, now one of the largest 
commission companies in the West. June, 1907, they purchased control 
of the Central Ice Company. Mr. Vanderslice is also interested in mining 
and oil property, being a director in the Lucky Tiger Mining Company, the 
Chanute Oil Refinery, and the Exchange Oil Company. 

January, 1874, Mr. Vanderslice married Miss M. Elizabeth Flinn, daugh- 
ter of William F. Flinn, of Iowa Point, Kansas. He is a member of Smithton 
Lodge No. 1, the first Masonic Lodge organized in Kansas, is a Shriner, a 
member of the Commercial Club, Evanston Golf Club and an Independent 
in politics. 



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ROBERT M. SNYDER, JR. 

President Snyder Estate Company and Director of the 
Kansas Natural Gas Company. 




ROBERT M. SNYDER. JR., son of Robert M. and Frances Hard 
Snyder, president of the Snyder Estate Company and a director 
of the Kansas Natural Gas Company, was born in Louisville, 
Kentucky, January 17, 1876. His father was a native of Colum- 
bus, Indiana, and was one of the pioneers in the development of 
the natural gas fields of the Southwest. R. M. Snyder, Sr., 
organized the Missouri Gas Company in 1895, reducing the price 
of gas in Kansas City from $1.60 to $1.00 per thousand; in 1904 he organ- 
ized the Kansas Natural Gas Company, building a pipe line a distance of two 
hundred miles, connecting Kansas City for the first time with the new gas 
fields of the Southwest and making possible the reduction in price of gas from 
$1.00 to 25 cents a thousand. Mr. Snyder, Jr., assisted his father in this 
organization, spending three years in the gas fields of southern Kansas. 

Mr. Snyder, after receiving a common school and high school education, 
spent three years in Missouri University. April 10, 1906, he married Miss 
Mary Bowen, at Independence, Kansas. They have three sons, Edward Le Roy, 
William Kenneth and Frederick Perry. 

Mr. Snyder, jointly with his brothers LeRoy J. and Kenneth W. Snyder, 
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PHILIP SETZLER 

Senior Partner of P. Setzler & Sons, Makers and Bottlers of 
Soda and Mineral Waters. 




HILIP SETZLER. who established the firm of P. Setzler & Sons, of 
which he is now^ the senior member, w^as born in Ungstein, 
Bavaria, Germany, November 28, 1836, the son of Philip Law- 
rence and Susanna Magdeline Setzler. In 1850 the family came 
to America, settling in Cleveland, Ohio. Later they moved to 
Bellevue. Ohio. 

Mr. Setzler obtained a liberal education in his native country, 
being graduated from high school in 1851. Afterward he devoted several 
years to the study of landscape gardening and fruit culture and in 1855, he 
followed his parents to America. For a year he engaged in a general mer- 
chandise business in Cleveland, and his brother soon afterward went into 
the drug business in Bellevue. In 1861 he located in Leavenworth. Kansas, 
and in March of the following year, came to Kansas City where he engaged 
in the liquor and cigar business with A. Wolf as his partner. Later, Mr. 
Setzler sold out his interest in the business and began the manufacture of 
cider and native wines which he continued until 1884, when he enlarged the 
business to include soda and mineral waters. Louis Philip, Charles Martin 
and William Herman, his three sons, are now^ associated with him in the firm 
of P. Setzler & Sons, proprietors of the Silver Rock Bottling Works. 

March 15, 1864, Mr. Setzler married Philomena Hauk. in Kansas City. 
To them w^ere born the following children: Wilhelmina, Louis P., Amelia 
Magdeline, Charles Martin, Mrs. Caroline La Rue, W^liam Herman, Eddie May 
and Edward Allen. 

At the begining of the Civil War, Mr. Setzler joined Company B., Seventy- 
seventh Enrolled Militia of Missouri, and continued with it throughout the 
war. He is a member of McPherson Post. G. A. R., and belongs to Humboldt 
Lodge, No. 4, Knights of Pythias. He has lived in Kansas City almost half 
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EDWIN J. HESS 

President of the Largest Railroad, Mill and Packing House Supplies Company 

in Kansas City. 




DWIN J. HESS, president of the Equipment Company, doing an 
extensive business in railroad, mill and packing house supplies, 
was born in Dayton, Illinois, June 28, 1871, the son of Charles 
B. and Clara 1. (Green) Hess. His father's family was among the 
earliest in Virginia and his mother's one of the earliest in Illinois. 
Obtaining a common school education, Mr. Hess received 
technical training for a ceramics engineer, and from 1892 to 
1909 he was engaged in exploiting clay properties and building and operating 
sewer pipe, fire brick, paving brick and roofing tile plants. For some time 
he was president of the Illinois State Clay Manufacturers' Association. Today 
Mr. Hess is one of the real authorities on clay products in the United States. 
April, 1909, Mr. Hess purchased an interest in, and became vice-president 
of, the Mercantile Lumber & Supply Company of Kansas City, and in April, 
1911, with his associates he purchased the supply department of the com- 
pany and organized it separately under the name of The Equipment Company. 
Politically, Mr. Hess is a Democrat and one of the most progressive men 
in the city. He is a member of the Kansas City Club and the Knife and 
Fork Club. January II, I 905, he married Enid Ethel Powell. They have 
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ELMORE SHELTON TRUITT 

Prominently Identified with the Real Estate Interests of Kansas City; 
Formerly a Successful Merchant. 




LMORE SHELTON TRUITT. for many years a successful merchant 
and now identified with the real estate interests of Kansas City, 
was born February 27, 1862, in Oakland, Pennsylvania, the son 
of James Alexander and Sarah Jane (Meredith) Truitt, both 
natives of Pennsylvania. The ancestors w^ere prominent in the 
colonial history of America. 

Mr. Truitt completed the common school course in Oakland 
and entered the classical and normal institute in the same city. In 1884, 
after having been engaged in the mercantile business with his father, he went 
to Colorado. He remained in Custer County about six months, then started 
on a trading trip through the Southwest. His party disbanded at Sherman, 
Texas, and in 1885 Mr. Truitt came to Kansas City. 

On his arrival here he went to work as a salesman with a dry goods 
firm. In 1886 he went into the real estate business, his assets being his ability 
and determination, a foundation upon which he has built one of the most 
extensive and successful real estate businesses in Kansas City or the state. 

August 16, 1892, Mr. Truitt married Miss Belle Morgan of Independence, 
Missouri. They have one daughter. 

In politics a Republican, Mr. Truitt is one of the few men who really 
think of Kansas City's best interests before he does politics. He is known 
as a real booster and has always encouraged campaigns for municipal improve- 
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CYRUS BARDEEN SWEET 

Successful Lumberman; Vice-President Long-Bell Lumber Company and 
Subsidiary Concerns. 






YRUS BARDEEN SWEET, one of the foremost lumbermen of 
America, Vice-president of the Long-Bell Lumber Company, was 
born in Washburn, Woodford County, Illinois, January 20, 1861, 
the son of Enoch and Emma H. (Toy) Sweet. His paternal 
ancestors were English, and his mother's antecedents were of 
German stock. Both families were among the pioneers who drove 
the Indians from Illinois and opened the state to the white settlers. 
Mr. Sweet received a common school education in Washburn and Chenoa. 
During vacations he worked in his father's store or on neighboring farms, 
until, at the age of 18, he became connected with the agency department of 
a railroad. After leaving that employment he turned his attention to the 
lumber business. 

In 1884, Mr. Sweet took a place in a retail lumber yard in Cherryvale, 
Kansas; one year later he w^as, by purchase, one of the owners, the firm 
being C. B. Sweet & Brother, and from that day his career has been one of 
remarkable business extension. For twelve years this business v^ras extended 
until it included lumber yards in Kansas, Missouri and all the territory now 
in the state of Oklahoma. In 189 7, Mr. Sweet entered the manufacturing 
field, establishing the Hudson River Lumber Company, at Hudson, Arkansas, 
a subsidiary company of the Long-Bell concern. Mr. Sweet had personal 
charge of this milling venture and it was a big success. In 1900, he was 
called to Kansas City to manage the manufacturing department of the Long- 
Bell interests and he is now Vice-president of the Long-Bell Lumber Company 
and at least a dozen subsidiary companies. 

Mr. Sweet married Miss Flora N. Bell, in Chenoa, Illinois, in 1884. She 
died three years later. In 1891 he married Jennie L. Lockwood. One 
daughter, born of the first union, is Mrs. J. D. Tennant, of Lake Charles, 
Louisiana. The children of the second marriage are Sibyl, Athelia, Cyra 
and Robert. 

Mr. Sweet is a member of the Christian Church and in politics is a 
Republican. Liberal and progressive, he is today one of the most valued 
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WILLIAM C. CULBERTSON 

Attorney and Member of the Upper House of the Common Council of 

Kansas City. 




JILLIAM C. CULBERTSON. attorney and member of the Upper 
House of the Common Council, was born in Rolla, Missouri, 
September I 2, 1 874, the family being of Scotch-Irish descent 
and numbering many distinguished and honored men. 

Mr. Culbertson took all that the public school and libraries 

of Rolla offered in the way of education and then went into the 

newspaper field, for a time editing two weekly papers. He 

entered William Jewell College and, while keeping up a high standard of 

scholarship, studied law. He was admitted to the bar by Judge E. J. Broaddus, 

then presiding judge of the Clay County Circuit Court. 

In I 898 Mr. Culbertson came to Kansas City. Although admitted to 
the bar and recognized as an able attorney, he entered the Kansas City 
School of Law while practicing with the firm of Wallace 6c Wallace. In 1899 
he was graduated and was immediately taken into the firm, which then became 
known as Wallace, Wallace & Culbertson. In 1903 he withdrew from this 
association to practice alone. Having made a specialty of corporation law, 
he is now called in an advisory capacity by many of the largest firms and 
corporations in the state. 

In 1900, Mr. Culbertson married Miss Martha P. Wymore, of Liberty. 
Missouri. He is a Shriner, a member of the Odd Fellows and the Bar Asso- 
ciation, and has always been prominent in the organizations of city, county 
and state which have aimed at the general improVement and betterment of 
industrial and political conditions. 

Mr. Culbertson is especially popular in Kansas City for the fine way in 
which he has carried business methods into the Upper House of the Council. 
Elected a member of the Upper House on the Democratic ticket, he has re- 
fused to allow^ politics to blind him to the interests of the city. After serving 
four years in the Upper House, w^ith a record excelled by no member since 
Kansas City received its charter, it was only natural that the Democratic 
party should insist on his candidacy for re-election in 1912 and it was equally 
natural that he should have been re-elected by a substantial majority on 

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ROBERT HARRY JONES 

Wholesale Fruit and Produce Dealer, a Member of the Ginocchio-Jones 

Fruit Company. 




OBERT HARRY JONES, of the Ginocchio-Jones Fruit Company, 
one of the oldest and largest firms in the Southwest, was born in 
St. Louis, Missouri, February 18, 1863, the son of Robert Holmes 
and Mary Jane (Wardlow) Jones. His father was a native of 
Bourbon County, Kentucky, and his mother was born in Brook- 
lyn, New York. His father was a representative of the same an- 
cestry from which sprang Oliver Wendell Holmes, the poet. 
Mr. Jones received his education in the public schools of St. Louis and, 
when eighteen years old, began to learn the machinist's trade in the Fulton 
Iron Works of that city. A year and a half later he went with Shepherd & 
Ginocchio Company, one of the largest fruit and produce firms in St. Louis. 
Coming to Kansas City in 1885, he found employment with Kesting & Smith, 
fruit dealers. When the firm of Ginocchio Brothers & Company decided to 
establish a branch in Kansas City, they bought out Kesting & Smith and made 
Mr. Jones manager. His management was a success from the first, and in 
I 899 the firm of Ginocchio-Jones was incorporated. This firm has an 
unbroken commercial history running back to 1850. 

May 7, 1902, Mr. Jones married Mattie May Barnes in Kansas City. 
Mr. Jones is a member of the Commercial Club and has liberally supported 
all movements of recent years which have aimed to better and advertise com- 
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DUDLEY WARD EATON 

General Claims Attorney for the Kansas City» Mexico & Orient Railway 

Company. 




UDLEY WARD EATON, general claims attorney for the Kansas 
City, Mexico & Orient Railway Company, was born near Bucyrus, 
Ohio, July 15, 1874. the son of John A. and Bathsheba G. 
(Quaintance) Eaton, who were both natives of Ohio. 

Mr. Eaton was graduated from Kansas University Law 
School, in 1895, and October 25. 1899, married Madge Mc- 
Alister. They have one daughter. 
Admitted to the bar in Kansas in I 894, Mr. Eaton came to Kansas 
City in 1895, w^as admitted to the Missouri bar and w^as affiliated with the 
legal department of the Kansas City, Pittsburg 6c Gulf Railroad and was 
later made general claims attorney' for the Kansas City, Mexico 6c Orient, 
which position he now holds. He is one of the few attorneys who have 
held aloof from politics and devoted his entire time and energy to his pro- 
fession. Politically he is a Democrat of liberal views but has had no hanker- 
ing after office or political favors. 

Mr. Eaton is an enthusiast at golf and is a member of the Evanston and 
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ALBERT L. BERGER 

Attorney at Law» Bank Director and 
Railroad President. 




LBERT L. BERGER, one of the best known attorneys in Kansas 
and Missouri, a resident of Kansas City, Kansas, but intimately 
connected with the legal fraternity of Kansas City, Mo., was 
born in Lebanon, Illinois, February 2, 1665. His father was a 
student in Heidelberg University when the German Revolution 
of 1848 broke out. Forced to leave the country on the failure 
of the revolution, he came to America and settled in Lebanon, 
Illinois, where he practiced medicine and surgery. He married Cecilia Adams, 
a near relative of John Quincy Adams. 

Albert L. Berger, the son, attended McKendree College w^here he w^as 
a classmate of such men as L. Y. Sherman and Charles S. Deneen, now^ prom- 
inent in national politics. Mr. Berger completed his legal education in Wash- 
ington University, St. Louis, Missouri, and was admitted to the bar in 1886. 
In 1887 he married Miss Estella J. Hecker, granddaughter of Col. Fred Hecker, 
who had fled from Germany with the senior Berger. They have two children, 
Home Hecker and Cecilia Marie. 

Immediately upon being admitted to the bar, Mr. Berger settled in Kan- 
sas City, Kansas, where he at once took a leading place in the legal frater- 
nity. From 1890 to 1898 he served as auditor of Wyandotte County. He 
assisted in the organization of the Kansas City, Kanras, State Bank, in which 
he is a director; the Mercantile Bank, and the Missouri River & Gulf Rail- 
road, of which he is president. He is connected with the legal departments 
of the Union Pacific, St. Louis ftt San Francisco and the Missouri, Kansas & 
Texas railroads and was called in as a special counselor for the Metropolitan 
Street Railway receivers. 



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Former Police Commissioner and Member of the Board of Election 
Commissioners. 




RANK P. SEBREE, police commissioner under Governor Dockery 
and later chairman of the election board, was born in Fayette, 
Missouri, October 25, 1854. After attending Central College in 
Fayette and Pritchett College in Glasgow, Missouri, he entered 
the law department of the University of Missouri, from which he 
was graduated. Upon being admitted to the bar, he began 
practicing in Marshall, Missouri, where he remained until I 889, 
when he came to Kansas City. 

One year before coming to Kansas City, Mr. Sebree was elected to the 
state legislature from Saline County and served with conspicuous ability as 
chairman of the judiciary committee. 

Mr. Sebree's reputation as an able attorney and a Democrat of sterling 
quality and liberal views, preceded him to Kansas City, and w^hen he arrived 
to make the city his home, he at once took a prominent place in the councils 
of his party. In 1898 he was made chairman of the county committee and 
rendered efficient service. In 1902, Governor Dockery appointed him a mem- 
ber of the board of police commissioners for Kansas City but he later re- 
signed to accept the position of chairman of the board of election commission- 
ers. Mr. Sebree has served the county as counselor. Today he is one of 
the strongest men in the Democratic party and enjoys a large law practice. 
In I 883, Mr. Sebree married Miss Rusaie Boyd, daughter of Col. Sam 
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MATTHEW A. FLYNN 

General Insurance Agent, Former City Clerk and City Comptroller, 
Elected April 2, 1912. 




]ATTHEW A. FLYNN, general agent for the Minnesota Mutual 
Life Insurance Connpany, former city clerk, and city comp- 
troller, elected April 2, 1912, was born in Cynthiana. Kentucky, 
July 4, 1866, the son of Thomas and Ellen Stapleton Flynn. 
His father was born in Ireland and his mother in Wellsville, Ohio. 
Mr. Flynn obtained the usual common school education and 
then began to shift for himself. He came to Kansas City, where 
he w^as from the first, very popular. Of Democratic politics, he has played 
no small part in recent campaigns and served as city clerk of Kansas City 
from 1909 to 191 L On giving up the office of city clerk, he returned to the 
insurance business in which he was very successful. 

The Democratic party, in seeking a candidate for city comptroller in 
1912, selected Mr. Flynn, who was generally respected and highly esteemed 
by the business men of Kansas City, regardless of party. The wisdom of this 
selection was verified in the election when Mr. Flynn was voted into office 
by an almost unprecedented majority. 

October 25, 1888, Mr. Flynn married Mary Cronin. They have two 
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VAL B. MINTUN 

Kansas City Manager for the Missouri and Kansas Telephone Company, 
and an Authority on Telephone Operation. 




AL B. MINTUN, Kansas City manager for the Missouri and Kansas 
Telephone Company, was born in Kansas City, Missouri, August 
29, 1874, son of Henry M. Mintun, one of the pioneers of this 
county ana one of the owners of the first newspaper ever pub- 
lished in Kansas City, The Bulletin. Mr. Mintun's father was a 
native of Ohio and his mother came from Middletown, Deleware. 
Mr. Mintun obtained a public school education and then 
went to work for the Missouri and Kansas Telephone Company, as a solicitor, 
in 1905. He served the company successively as adjuster, branch exchange 
worker, special agent, contract manager and assistant manager. In October, 
1911, he was made manager, having come up through the ranks, and,' con- 
sequently, being equipped with a thorough technical knowledge of the tele- 
phone business. 

Mr. Mintun belongs to the Elks lodge, is a Thirty-second degree Mason, 
a Shriner, a member of the Commercial Club, Kansas City Club, Railroad 
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DAVID WILSON RIDER 

General Superintendent Kansas City Terminal Railway; a Recognized 
Authority on Railroad Construction and Operation. 




AVID WILSON RIDER, general superintendent of the Kansas City 
Terminal Railway, and one of the recognized authorities on rail- 
road construction and operation, was born in Geneseo, Illinois, 
August 25, 1837, the son of David Wilson and Ella C. Rider. His 
parents were sterling Quakers, his father being a native of New 
York and his mother of Massachusetts. 

In 1871, Mr. Rider began his career as a messenger boy in 
a railroad office, having had but a public school education. He was shortly 
advanced to a freight checker and then began his work in the transportation 
department. Starting in as a switchman, he became successively brakeman, 
conductor, yard master and station apent and as a result had an understand- 
ing of operative methods possible only to the man who has been in personal 
contact with the problems arising. 

From October to December, 1881, he served as superintendent of the 
Peoria & Pekin Union Railway; from the latter date to January 10, 1887, 
he was division superintendent's chief clerk on the Wabash. Fuel agent for 
a short time, he became in May, 1887, chief clerk to the receiver of the 
Wabash system. In 1889 he became superintendent of the Jack.sonville South- 
ern and in 1891 took charge as general superintendent. In October, 1892, 
he was made superintendent of the Kansas City Belt Railway. 

Mr. Rider has been chairman of the Executive Committee of the Car 
Service Association, since its organization, served two terms as president 
of the Kansas City Division of the Central Association of Railroad Officials, 
has been a director of the Provident Association, Commercial Club, Conven- 
tion Hall and of the Merchants and Manufacturers' Association. He is an 
Elk, a Knight Templar and consistory Mason. In politics, he is a Republican. 
January 14, 1885, Mr. Rider married Mary Louise Mayo, of Chicago. 
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Hay Merchant and One of the Men Instrumental in Building 
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ONATHAN A. BRUBAKER, often referred to as the "Hay King." 
was born in Springfield, Ohio. April 2, 1859, the son of Benjamin 
and Susanah Denlinger Brubaker. His grandfather, Benjamin 
Brubaker, Sr., was a pioneer in Ohio, coming from Virginia. The 
Denlinger family came from Pennsylvania and settled near Dayton, 
Ohio. 

The fact that Mr. Brubaker received only the common 
benefits did not keep him from gaining a more complete education 



from books and observation and when he established his hay business in Kan- 
sas City in 1 88 1 , he was well prepared to make it the mammoth success it 
has proved. Today he is probably the best known hay merchant in Kansas 
City. 

Mr. Brubaker has been affiliated with the Grand Avenue Methodist 
Church for many years and he is one of the men who handled the business 
of building the elegant church and skyscraper office building at the corner 
of Grand Avenue and Ninth street. He was chairman of the building committee 
and also chairman of the board of trustees. For several years he served as 
superintendent of the church Sunday school. 

February 8, 1883, Mr. Brubaker married Elizabeth Martin. They have 
one daughter, Mrs. L. W. Cuyler. 

Mr. Brubaker holds an enviable position both socially and in the com- 
mercial world and he has always been among those who go to the front for 
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LAWRENCE W. HAGG 

President Hagg Investment Company, Doing a General Real Estate, Investment, 
Loan and Mortgage Business. 




AWRENCE W. HAGG. president of the Hagg Investment Com- 
pany, was born in Stanton, Iowa, in 1880, the son of John A. 
and Mary Matilda Hagg, and is of German and Scandinavian de- 
scent. His father was a native of Henry County, Illinois, and 
his mother was born in Iowa. 

After completing the common school, Mr. Hagg entered 
Western Normal College of Iowa and was graduated in I 899. 
He then went into the Southwest and for some time was in the banking busi- 
ness in Oklahoma. Later he went into colonization work in Amarillo, Texas, 
coming to Kansas City in 1908 with a large experience in the real estate and 
investment business and a thorough knowledge of values in the Southwest. 
It was only natural that, with this equipment, his business in Kansas City 
should have been a success from the first and that the company of which he 
is head should now be one of the largest of its kind in this territory. 

In 1903 Mr. Hagg married Beulah Smade. They have one daughter. Mr. 
Hagg is a Republican, a man of liberal views, and a Kansas City booster all 
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THOMAS R. MORROW 

Solicitor for Missouri and Iowa of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 
Railway Company. 




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HOMAS R. MORROW, prominent attorney of Kansas City and 
solicitor of the Atchison, Topeka fit Santa Fe Railway Company, 
for the states of Missouri and Iowa, was born in Hartford, Con- 
necticut, January 24, 1 85 7. Mr. Morrow sums up his career 
thus: "Simply a hard working lawyer for about 30 years." But 
the high esteem in which he is held by the legal fraternity of the 
West, does not admit of dismissing the subject so modestly. 
Morrow obtained a general education in Yale Academy, from w^hich 



he was graduated in 1880. Subsequently, he entered Yale Law School and was 
graduated in 1 882. He immediately began the practice of law and has met 
w^ith uniform success throughout his career. 

Devoting all of his time and attention to the work in hand, Mr. Morrow 
has refrained from seeking political favors, although, being a Democrat of the 
old fashioned type, such favors might have been his for the asking. He made 
one exception to his rule during the administration of Governor Francis in Mis- 
souri, and accepted at his hand an appointment to the board of police com- 
missioners in Kansas City. He served in this capacity about three years. 

July 3, 1883, Mr. Morrow married Miss Flora E. Burt, at Hartford, Con- 
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JOHN P. MULLANE 

General Agent for The Columbian National Life Insurance 
Company. 



^^^^^^^SIjOHN P. MULLANE, well known insurance man and general 
^^yirG >^ agent for the Columbian National Life Insurance Company, with 
K^^ offices in suite 1304 Commerce Building, was born in County 
Limerick, Ireland, May 12, 1872, the son of Patrick and Catherine 
Mullane. 

Mr. Mullane obtained his education in the National schools 
of Ireland and then came to America. After trying several occu- 
pations he found his calling in the insurance field and today he is considered 
one of the best men in the business in the central west. In April, 1906, 
he married Miss Jennie Steele. They have one daughter. 

Coming to Kansas City in 1892, Mr. Mullane was inpressed by the air 
of activity and decided to locate here. For seven years he was with the firm 
of Drennon, Schafer & Company, who were doing a general insurance busi- 
ness, and in 1909 he became associated with the Columbian National Life 
Insurance Company, of which he is now general agent. 



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ROBERT J. FLICK 

President of the Franklin Ice Cream Company, One of the Largest Ice 
Cream Makers in the West. 




OBERT J. FLICK, president of the Franklin Ice Cream Company, 
was born in Ohio, May 1 0, 1 874, the son of A. J. and Eliza 
Lipsey Flick. His father was a native of England and his mother 
was born in Ohio. 

Mr. Flick followed his connmon school education with a 
course in Nebraska University, from w^hich institution he was 
graduated in 1896. August 14, 1907, he married Grace Ashton. 
Going into the merchandise business, Mr. Flick eventually began the 
wholesale manufacture of ice cream. He came to Kansas City, in February, 
1910, to assume the presidency and management of the Franklin Ice Cream 
Company, the largest concern of its kind in the city. For fifteen years 
prior to his coming here, he had been in the same business in Lincoln, Ne- 
braska, and still has a factory at that place. 



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Chief of Police of Kansas City, Former Superintendent of Streets, Lawyer and 

Business Man. 




<]ENTWORTH EDWIN GRIFFIN, since 1908 chief of police of 
Kansas City, was born in Dayton, Ohio, December 24, 1872, 
the son of Edwin F. and Annie S. (Wentworth) Griffin, his father 
being a native of Vermont and his mother having been born in 
New Hampshire. 

Mr. Griffin came to Kansas City in 1886, having prepared 
for the legal profession, and for a time was associated with 
Judge William P. Hall. From 1692 to 1903 he was associated with the 
Western Sash and Door Company and later served the city as superintendent 
of streets, being in the office when civil service became effective. Mr. Griffin 
took the examination and qualified, later resigning from the place to accept 
his present position at the head of the police department. He is a Repub- 
lican of progressive and liberal views and has made his administration in 
the police department one of the best in the history of the city. 

August 14, 1901, Mr. Griffin married Dora C. Nagle. He is a Thirty- 
second degree Mason, a member of Gate City No. 522, A. F. & A. M., 
Scottish Rite and a Shriner and is also a member of the Modern Woodmen 
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GEORGE A. DIXON 

Partner and Manager of the Cattle Department of the Charles Dixon 
Commission Company. 



EORGE A. DIXON, a member of the Charles Dixon Commission 
Company, 346-54 Live Stock Exchange Building, and manager of 
the extensive cattle department of the company, was born in 
I tAMV/ lrv 'ft Riley County, Kansas, February 21, 1875, the son of Thomas 
V^W^^ fy and Mary Hoff Dixon. His father was born in Ireland and his 
^'^^^^^^^' 1 mother was born in Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany. 

Mr. Dixon received his early education in Junction City, 
Kansas, where he was graduated from the high school. October 29, 1902, he 
married Ida Margaret McNamara. They have one son. 

In I 895, Mr. Dixon came to Kansas City and associated himself with 
the Charles Dixon Commission Company, one of the largest concerns of its 
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PETER W. GOEBEL 

Banker and Capitalist; President Commercial National Bank 
of Kansas City, Kansas. 




■ AVE a little every month, indulge in no speculations, give every- 
body a square deal and don't forget God. By his own admission, 
this simple creed enabled Peter ^X^ Goebel to rise from an immi- 
grant boy, without funds, to one of the most influential bankers 
in Kansas and Greater Kansas City. 

Peter W. Goebel was born in Nassau, Germany, March 18, 
1 859. At the age of 14 he had completed the public school 
course and he at once persuaded his father to allow him to come to America. 
Gaining the reluctant consent of his parents, young Goebel made the 
trip, steerage and alone, arriving in America with funds enough to carry him 
to Chicago. He went to work for an Illinois farmer until he had saved 
enough to pay his fare to Kansas. While learning the language. Mr. Goebel 
clerked in a drug store and cared for his employer's horses. When he was 
I 9 years old he had saved enough to have a drug store of his own. 

In 1882, Mr. Goebel became cashier of the banking firm of M. Reed & 
Company, at Loulsburg. In I 89 7, he organized the Commercial National 
Bank of Kansas City, Kansas, and became its president, a position he still 
holds. In 1905 he organized the Citizens' State Saving Bank, of Kansas City, 
Kansas, and in 1907, the Kansas Trust Company. Of both of these com- 
panies he is now the head. 

In 187 7, Mr. Goebel married Mary Shaw. They have five children. 



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Attorney, Connected With the Legal Department of the Long-Bell Lumber 

Company. 




ILLIAM R. THURMOND, well known attorney, affiliated with the 
legal department of the Long-Bell Lumber Company, was born in 
Fulton, Missouri, August 21, 1870, the son of Mr. and Mrs. 
Nicholas D. Thurmond. Both his parents were natives of Mis- 
souri, his father having been born in Pike County and his mother 
in Callaway County. 

After obtaining the usual grade school education, Mr. Thur- 
mond entered Westminster College, from which he was graduated in 1890. 
October 12, 1893, he married Alma Harlan. They have two sons and a 
daughter. 

After leaving school, Mr. Thurmond began reading law in his father's 
office. He came to Kansas City from Fulton in 1891, was admitted to the 
bar in 1893 and began practicing the following year. He was associated 
with Judge Trumbull for ten years in the legal department of the Pittsburg 
& Gulf Railroad and while Judge Trumbull was general attorney for the 
Kansas City & Northern, now a part of the Q. O. & K. C. 

For the past seven years Mr. Thurmond has been practicing on his own 
account, the firm name at present being Thurmond & Farrar, 903 R. A. 
Long Building. Since May, 1910, the firm has been affiliated with the legal 
department of the Long-Bell Lumber Company. 

Mr. Thurmond is a man of recognized ability and talent, a member of 
the Jackson County Bar Association and the Knife and Fork Club. Polit- 
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ROBERT BURNS RUFF 

President of the Pioneer Life Insurance Company of America and an 
Attorney of Much Ability. 



.Ij^V^UijOBERT BURNS RUFF, president of the Pioneer Life Insurance 
l^nWlrjJ) Company of America, with headquarters in Kansas City, was 
r^ r^^ born in Winchester, Illinois, July 29, 1869, the son of John 1. 
(3r^^\J^^) and Lucy A. Ruff. Mr. Ruff is from a line of sturdy and famous 
( \ AW^\\ Scotchmen, Robert Burns, the poet, being a great-uncle of Mr. 
!Jiyi^''^;i Ruff's father. 

Mr. Ruff was graduated from Illinois College in I 890, and 
July I I of the same year married Lizzie E. Holmes. They have three children, 
Mary Ellen, Robert B., Jr., and William Harrison. Mr. Ruff is a Democrat 
and once refused the nomination for congressman when nomination meant 
election. By profession he is an attorney. 



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CONRAD H. MANN 

Secretary-Treasurer and General Manager Kansas City Breweries Company; 
Chairman Board of Grand Trustees, Fraternal Order of Eagles. 




•^ONRAD H. MANN, chairman of the Board of Grand Trustees 
of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, and secretary -treasurer and 
general manager of the Kansas City Breweries Company, w^as 
born January 17, 1871, in Butler Township, Scott County, Iowa, 
the son of John and Barbara Mann. His father was a native of 
Germany and his mother was born in Richmond, Virginia. 

After finishing the common school, Mr. Mann took a busi- 
ness college course in Davenport, low^a, and became an expert bookkeeper and 
accountant. September II, 1902, he married Emma Werde, of Milwaukee, 
Wisconsin. 

Working on the theory that there is an opportunity for everyone who is 
looking for it, Mr. Mann followed his profession for several years and then 
became associated with the Kansas City Breweries Company, one of the largest 
concerns of its kind in Missouri, of which he is now^ the executive head. He 
has always been one of the hard workers in the Eagles lodge and as a recog- 
nition of his ability and effort he was made chairman of the Board of Grand 
Trustees of the order. 

Mr. Mann has always taken a keen interest in municipal affairs. Being 
a man of quick sympathies, the Mayor's Christmas Tree project appealed to 
him and during the Brown administration he was one of the men who twice 
made it a success. Mr. Mann has always been a warm friend of the newspaper 
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GEORGE GILCHRIST MOORE 

Assistant Cashier, New England National Bank, and an able 
Man in Financial Matters. 



PT^^IEORGE GILCHRIST MOORE, assistant cashier of the New England 
Vitv^T^ National Bank of Kansas City, was born in Holton, Kansas, July 
■ ' ' 19, 1876, the son of James P. and Vinnie E. Moore. His father, 

who is president of the First National Bank in Holton, is a 
//7J[\| native of Ohio and his mother was born in Fairfield, Iowa. 

Mr. Moore, after obtaining his education, started to follow in 
the footsteps of his father, who is one of the prominent bankers 
in the Sunflower state, and became cashier of the Citizens State Bank, Ponca 
City, Oklahoma. While in Ponca City, Mr. Moore served the community as 
a member of the board of education from 1901 to 1903 and he materially 
assisted in establishing the excellent school system in that city. From Ponca 
City, Mr. Moore came to Kansas City to accept his present position as assist- 
ant cashier of the New England National Bank. 

September 28, 1898, Mr. Moore nuarried Clara B. Tucker. They have one 
son, James H., nine years old. 

Politically, Mr. Moore is a Republican. He is a man of ability and judg- 
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CHARLES CHRISTIAN HOEFER 

Member of the Woodstock-Hoefer Watch and Jewelry Company, one of 
the Largest in the Central West. 




1HARLES CHRISTIAN HOEFER, of the Woodstock-Hoefer Watch 

and Jewelry Company, was born March 2, 1855, in Maryville, 

Dodge County, Wisconsin. Thomas W. Hoefer, his father, came 

from Germany in 1 845, landed in New Orleans, walked to St. 

Louis, made his way to Wisconsin and settled in Dodge County 

where he cleared the first forty acre farm in his vicinity. He 

married Philipina Knester. 

His father dying in 1858 and his mother ten years later, C. C. Hoefer 

was an orphan at the age of thirteen. His school education was abruptly 

ended and he went to work. 

For two years, Mr. Hoefer clerked in a drug store, two years in a dry 
goods store and then he went to Chicago where he worked for Marshall Field 
& Company and John V. Farwell & Company until 1882, when he went 
into the jewelry business as an employe of Otto Young & Company. Later 
he was with M. A. Meade & Company. In 1885 he came to Kansas City and 
with S. E. Woodstock, who had been a manager for a jewelry house in Des 
Moines, Iowa, he established what is now the Woodstock-Hoefer Watch and 
Jewelry Company, which from a modest beginning has come to be one of 
the largest jewelry establishments in the Central West. 

February II, 1885. Mr. Hoefer married Mary Virginia Schofield, of 
Schofield, Wisconsin. They have two daughters. 

Mr. Hoefer is a member of the Kansas City Club and the Elm Ridge Club. 
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Manager of the Missouri Boiler Works Company and Interested in 
Banking, Real Estate and Groceries. 




HARRY DARBY, manager of the Missouri Boiler Works Com- 
pany, one of the largest concerns of its kind in the West, was 
born in Washington, D. C, June 17, 1865, the son of Henry C. 
and Mary Hannah Darby, his father having been born in Charles- 
ton, Virginia, and his mother being a native of Baltimore, Mary- 
land. 

The Darby family came to Kansas City when the subject 
of this sketch was a small boy and for forty-two years he has been connected 
with the city and its history. 

After finishing his school education Mr. Darby learned the boilermaker's 
trade and for a long time was with the Darby Boiler Works. Later he was 
associated with the Kansas City Boiler Works and in 1900 went into the 
field for himself and organized the Missouri Boiler Works. It has been ve:y 
successful from the first and at present Mr. Darby has a diversity of interests 
aside from it. He is interested in real estate in both Kansas Citys, has an 
investment in the grocery business and is in the organization of the Exchange 
State Bank, the Commerce National Bank and the Kansas Trust Company, 
all of Kansas City, Kansas. 

While not a politician by any means, Mr. Darby is a Republican of liberal 
views and served Wyandotte County, Kansas, as county commissioner for 
three years to the general satisfaction of all concerned. 

June 22, 1890, Mr. Darby married Florance Snith of Ellis, Kansas, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Snith of Rochester, New York. They have 
three children, Marie, Harry and Florance. 

While building up a successful business, Mr. Darby has not neglected 
the social side of life and he has an extraordinary circle of friends. He 
belongs to the Elks and is a Mason, a Knipht Templar and a Shriner. His 
position in commercial Kansas City is a monument to his hard work and 
honest business policy. The Missouri Boiler Works Company's plant is located 
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SAMUEL Y. HIGH 

Chief Superintendent of the ICansas City, Missouri, 
Waterworks. 




]AMUEL Y. HIGH, head of the municipal waterworks of Kansas 
City, Missouri, was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, August 30, 
1856, the son of R. V. R. and Ester A. High. His ancestors 
were among the early pioneers of Pennsylvania and both parents 
were natives of that state. 

After obtaining a common school education, Mr. High 
attended the Philadelphia Polytechnic University in 1879-80. 
He married Louisa Patten April 29, 1881. They have two children, a son 
and a daughter. 

For sixteen years Mr. High was general superintendent of the ICansas 
City Bolt and Nut Company, one of the largest manufacturing concerns in 
the West. He later became connected with the waterworks department of 
the city and his appointment as chief superintendent of the big system was 
only a just recognition of his ability. Mr. High is a Republican. 



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EDWARD F. SWINNEY 

Former President of the American Bankers* Association and Now 
President of the First National Bank. 




;DWARD F. SWINNEY, a national figure in the financial world, 
at one t:me president of the American Bankers' Association and 
now president of the First National Bank of Kansas City, was 
born in Marysville, Campbell County, Virginia, August I, 185 7. 
After completing the common school course he entered Black- 
burg Military Academy at Blackburg, Virginia. 

Leaving the academy in 1875, Mr. Swinney decided to seek 
his field of opportunity in the West, and in February, 1876, he arrived in 
Fayette, Missouri, and went to work delivering groceries. His salary was 
$20.00 a month. In August, 1878, notwithstanding the fact that he had been 
given a raise in salary of $5.00 a month, Mr. Swinney decided that he wanted 
to learn the banking business and accepted a place in the Fayette Bank, where 
he remained until September, 1882. A change to Rich Hill. Missouri, brought 
him promotion, and later when Fayette capital opened a bank in Colorado 
City, Texas, Mr. Swinney was made cashier. He remained there until 1887, 
w^hen he became associated with the banking interests of Kansas City, coming 
to the First National as cashier. After serving in that capacity for thirteen 
years he was elected president of the institution, which is one of the strongest 
in the United States. 

At one time Mr. Swinney was a director of the Chicago & Alton Railroad, 
and a director in the Fidelity Trust Company and the Missouri Savings Bank. 
For several years he served as treasurer of the school board. 

Mr. Swinney's reputation as a conservative financier is national. In 1905 
he was made president of the American Bankers' Association. He is a mem- 
ber of the Commercial Club and, as such, takes a vital interest in the indus- 
trial and commercial welfare of the city. He is also a member of the Country 
Club. He married Miss Ida Lee, of Howard County, Missouri, in 1882. 



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One of the Most Successful Physicians in the State and Formerly 
City Physician of Kansas City. 




EORGE O. COFFIN, M. D., well-known physician and formerly 
city physician of Kansas City, was born in Danielsvilie. Penn- 
sylvania, August 4, 1858. His early education was obtained 
in the common school of his native town and at Williamsburg 
Academy. Later he entered Penn Medical College in Philadel- 
phia and was graduated in 1879. He practiced in Frankfort, 
Kansas; El Paso, Texas, and Silver Cliff, Colorado, and came to 
Kansas City in 1887. 

In 1894 Dr. Coffin was appointed house surgeon of the General Hospital 
and in 1895 became city physician, in which capacity he served until 1901. 
He was elected to the chair of surgery in the Medico-Chirurgical College and 
was dean of the faculty. He is also professor of clinical surgery in the 
Women's Medical College of Kansas City and is on the staffs of a half dozen 
railroad and other hospitals. 

Dr. Coffin is a member of the Jackson County Medical Society and the 
Missouri State Medical Association. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, a 
noble of the Mystic Shrine, a Knight of Pythias and an Elk. 



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Former Mayor of Independence, Missouri; Vice-President of the Home Deposit 
Trust Company, Independence, Missouri. 




AMES ALLEN PREWITT was born in Henry County, Kentucky. 
January 20, 1862, the son of James V. Prewitt, a farmer and 
merchant, and Catherine (Byrns) Prewitt, a woman in whom all 
the lovable qualities proverbial with the Southern woman were to 
be found. Both parents have been dead for several years. Mr. 
Prewitt received his education in a country school, augmented by 
a single year at Georgetown College, Georgetown, Kentucky. 
After teaching school three years, one year in Kentucky and two years in 
Missouri, he was admitted to the bar at Independence in 1887. He acquired 
the rudiments of his legal education while teaching school. He says he has 
never graduated; that he never intends to graduate; that he is opposed to 
dying young so long as there is something more to learn. 

Mr. Prewitt has not strenuously sought office, but in his early business 
career was elected justice of the peace, served acceptably and declined to be- 
come candidate for a second term on the ground that one term as justice of the 
peace was enough for any man and that in four years in such office one 
ought to progress beyond it, or give place to one who could. 

After his term of office as justice expired, Mr. Prewitt gave his entire 
attention to his profession, attaining a degree of success that has placed him 
in the ranks of the substantial members of the Jackson County bar. 

In 1906 Mr. Prewitt was nominated by the Democrats at a primary elec- 
tion for the office of mayor, and was elected on a progressive platform, pre- 
pared and enunciated by himself during the campaign. The other nominees 
on the Democratic ticket were named in convention controlled by the con- 
servative element of the party who refused to adopt the progressive platform 
presented by Mr. Prewitt. The election which followed, resulted in choosing 
Mr. Prewitt as mayor and the Democratic candidate for treasurer, both by 
safe majorities, but the rest of the Democratic nominees for general offices 
were defeated. 

No man ever assumed the office of mayor of Independence under more 
unfavorable circumstances, and no one ever succeeded more thoroughly in 
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years of his administration a veritable revolution took place. The city was 
rejuvenated and has ever since continued to grow. 

Mr. Prewitt's character as an official and his style of accomplishing his 
purposes can best be shown by quoting froni his public utterances. In his first 
message to the city council he said: "This has been a significant election. 
Democrats and Republicans elected at the same time on issues and not on 
men. It means that we are now neither Democrats nor Republicans, but 
servants of Independence. The responsibility is not on the Democratic party 
or the Republican party, but on us." Again he said: "The improvements we 
are about to undertake will doubtless provoke opposition. 1 trust that through 
it all, the councilmen will keep sweet. Opposition is all we can afford to 
provoke. With our minds firmly fixed on the public good and our hearts 
full of respect and consideration for our fellows, we are bound to win." And 
again: "We cannot move forward so long as we get our inspirations from the 
past or copy our ideas from tombstones. Precedent is good enough to fol- 
low^ so long as we know nothing better. The world should be governed by 
man-alive, and a city should be conducted according to the highest ideals of 
intellectual development. No nation, state or city can make the best prog- 
ress that does not change its constitution or charter with every generation. 
An enlightened people will yet make this change not only possible but com- 
pulsory." 

Again, in a local option campaign, the mayor gave vent to this expres- 
sion: "It seems almost useless for a man to think unless he owns a news- 
paper or occupies a pulpit. This however should not deter us from using 
our best efforts to smother a movement which, for the sake of giving a few 
fanatics a chance to count, must result in much bitterness and in the suppres- 
sion of the work now being done toward the substantial improvement of our 
city." 

Mr. Prewitt's message to the council on the local option question and 
his Thanksgiving proclamation were so full cf unusual expressions and unique 
philosophy that they were widely quoted and came near giving him a national 
reputation. 

Out of his persistent advocacy of the improvement of the streets of 
Independence and the building of boulevards and paving the Old Santa Fe 
Trail, and the building of a City Home or Inn on a civic center in Independ- 
ence in commemoration of the Trail and the historic place which Independ- 
ence occupies in the civilization of the West, has grown much of the senti- 
ment that has started the movement for a National Highway from Washing- 
ton to Monterey. 

Mr. Prewitt is a Mason, Knight of Pythias and Modern Woodman. He 
is also a charter member and one of the organizers of the famous Twentieth 
Century Sunday School class, at independence, consisting of more than 
two hundred members, and including men of all ages and \valks of life. 

Mr. Prewitt is also one of the founders and organizers of the Home 
Deposit Trust Company and is its vice-president. This company was or- 
ganized in 1910, with a capital stock of $100,000. He is also president of the 
Independence Fair Association. 

July 12, 1896, Mr. Prewitt married Miss Mary Higgason, the daughter 
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JOB HOLLINGER 

Building Contractor, President of the Hollinger Construction Company, 
Erector of Many Structures of Note. 




OB HOLLINGER, president of the Hollinger Construction Com- 
pany, a man who has built much of the new Kansas City, was 
born in Renfrew County, Canada, July 3 1, I860, the son of 
John and Sarah (Moore) Hollinger. Mr. Hollinger's mother 
died when he was five years old and he went to live with John 
Ryan, an uncle, near Ferguson's Falls, Ontario. He lived there 
until he was thirteen years old. 
Mr. Hollinger worked as a carpenter's apprentice in Eganville until Sep- 
tember, 1883, when he came to Kansas City, where he worked at his trade 
until 1888, when he began contracting and building on his own account. 
In 1893 he formed a partnership with Z. T. Mitchell. The latter's death 
in 1907 terminated the firm of Hollinger ^ Mitchell and the Hollinger Con- 
struction Company was organized. 

Among the buildings erected by this company are Miltona apartments, 
Switzer and Manual schools, residence of Mrs. S. B. Armour, Christian Church 
at Independence Avenue and Gladstone Boulevard, Jenkins building, addition 
to the Emery, Bird, Thayer building, St. Teresa Academy. The company has 
built many of the finest buildings in the Southwest, including the Congrega- 
tional Church at Springfield, Missouri, and the Presbyterian Church at Orange, 
Texas. 

Mr. Hollinger married a Kansas City woman. Miss Armita J. Curtis. 
In politics he is an Independent. He was the first president of the Master 
Builders' Exchange, and is a member of the Merchants and Manufacturers' 
Association and the Employers' Association. He belongs to St. John's Cath- 
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RICHARD JUSTIN McCARTY 

Vice-President of the Kansas City Southern Railway Company, 
Trainer of Competent Railroad Men. 




ICHARD JUSTIN McCARTY. vice-president of the Kansas City 
Southern Railway Company, one of the best known railroad men 
in the West, was born in Clarksburg, Virginia, March 12, 1851, 
the son of Joseph and Ann McCarty. Both parents were natives 
of Virginia and the ancestral stock came from England and 
Northern Ireland to America in 1670. Many members of the 
family served in the American army during the War of the 
Revolution. 

Mr. McCarty was graduated from the University of Virginia in 1875, 
having prepared himself to be a civil engineer. At one time he w^as general 
manager and chief engineer of the Metropolitan Street Railway Company of 
Kansas City. Becoming affiliated with the Kansas City Southern Railway he 
served that road in various executive capacities and is now its vice-president. 
Held in high esteem by the railroad fraternity of the Central West, espe- 
cially by the younger generation, Mr. McCarty has trained more competent rail- 
road men than any other official in Kansas City, and in his abrupt way has 
always been a warm friend of the newspaper fraternity. June 24, 1877, he 
married Mary Louise Allen. They have three sons, now grown to manhood. 
Mr. McCarty is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, 
American Society of Mechanical Engineers and of the Sons of the American 
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JOHN HARRISON ATWOOD 

Prominent Attorney, a Nationally Known Leader in the Democratic 
Party, Occupying a Large Place in Local Affairs. 




^OHN HARRISON ATWOOD, of the law firm of Atwood & Hill, 
was born in Phillipston, Massachusetts, the son of Andrew and 
Mary E. (Holden) Atwood. He was graduated from the law de- 
partment of Harvard University and in 1884 was admitted to the 
bar in Middlesex, Massachusetts. He married Nellie F. Wyman, of 
Arlington, Massachusetts. They have three children. 

Mr. Atwood came to Kansas immediately after graduation 
and located in Leavenworth, where he practiced law froni I 884 to 1 908. 
He was a law partner of Lucien Baker, United States Senator from Kansas, 
later was associated with William C. Hook, now^ Federal Judge, and more 
recently in Kansas City, Missouri, with James A. Reed, United States Senator 
from Missouri, the partnership in each case being dissolved by the acces- 
sions to office. 

From 1886 to 1892, Mr. Atwood was County Attorney for Leavenworth 
County, Kansas, was Democratic candidate for Congress in 1892, delegate 
at large to the national conventions of 1896, 1900 and 1904, and served as 
Democratic national committeeman for Kansas from 1900 to 1909. 

Mr. Atwood is a member of the University Club. Mid-Day Club, Harvard 
Club, Commercial Club and the Kansas City Athletic Club. 



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LYMAN J. STUDEBAKER 

One of the Most Prominent Photographers in the Southwest, a 
Winner of Many Medals for Artistic Work. 

YMAN J. STUDEBAKER, photographer, was born in Freeport, 
Illinois, October 4, 1874, the son of George E. and Nancy E. 
Studebaker, who were natives of Pennsylvania. 

For twenty years Mr. Studebaker has been studying pho- 
tography and he is today considered one of the best in the 
Southwest. He began business for himself in Colorado Springs, 
Colorado, in 1903. In April, 1905, he came to Kansas City 
and opened a studio at 1024 Walnut street. In 1908 he w^as forced to move 
into larger quarters, where his studio is now located, 91 1 Grand avenue. 

Mr. Studebaker's ar(; work has a reputation throughout the country. 
Time and again he has won medals and trophies and for five consecutive years 
has w^on all the honors in the art class at the convention of Missouri Photog- 
raphers. 

Mr. Studebaker is a member of the Automobile Club, Kansas City Ath- 
letic Club, Elm Ridge Golf Club. Rotary Club. Ad Club. Y. M. C. A. and 
the Knights of Pythias lodge. 




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CLINTON D. FRENCH 

Treasurer Rowley Copper Mines, Maricopa, Arizona; One of the 
Founders Kansas City Board of Trade. 




-^LINTON D. FRENCH was born in Cooper County. Missouri. 
December 4, 1858, son of John R. French, deceased, and Martha 
French, still living and enjoying good heahh. 

Mr. French was one of the men who established the original 
Board of Trade at Union Avenue and Santa Fe Street when 
Kansas City's street cars were drawn by mules and passengers 
were often forced to alight and help push the cars up the hills. 
Under the firm name of French Brothers, C. D. and his brother, Andrew 
R., conducted for many years an extensive grain business, shipping often 
several train loads of corn in a single day. The brothers made a fortune 
in this business, but C. D., believing then, as now, in the great future of 
Kansas City, invested so heavily in real estate that when the slump came in 
1 893 he lost more than half a million dollars. 

In the last few years Mr. French has devoted his entire time to the 
development and financing of what is believed to be one of the largest copper- 
gold properties in the country, the Rowley Copper Mines of Maricopa County. 
Arizona. Mr. French's widespread acquaintance in this locality and his strict 
integrity, coupled w^ith his unbounded energy, have enlisted many other lead- 
ing citizens of Kansas City in this enterprise, and materially assisted in estab- 
lishing the proposition. He \vas for some time secretary of the company, 
but his ability in the line of financing demanded his services more particu- 
larly in that line, and upon the request of his associates he now engages 
himself solely with the treasury department of the company, and the develop- 
ment of the property, which he very largely directs. 



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JOHN F. DOWNING 

President of the New England National Bank, One of the Most 
Prominent Bankers of the Southwest. 




OHN F. DOWNING was born August 24, 1854, in Virginia. Illinois. 
His father, David D. Downing, was born in Kentucky, and his 
mother, Mary Gill Dow^ning, in England. He obtained his educa- 
tion in Illinois College, Jacksonville, Illinois, graduating in 1879, 
two years before William J. Bryan and Former Governor Richard 
Yates of Illinois received their degrees from the same college. 

On leaving college Mr. Dow^ning became a clerk in the Farm- 
ers National Bank of his native town and where he remained until the spring 
of 1882, when he came to Kansas City and became a bookkeeper for the 
Armour Banking Company. Through close application to business he stead- 
ily arose until he became paying teller, \vhich position he resigned in June, 
I 885, to go into the real estate business, in which he remained until January 
1 , 1 889, when he accepted the office of vice-president of the New England 
Safe Deposit and Trust Company, a company which he helped to organize, 
and which had for its president A. W. Armour. 

The following year Mr. Downing succeeded to the office of president, 
w^hich he has held continuously since. On September 8, 1898, the trust com- 
pany was converted into the New England National Bank. Mr. Downing is, 
or has been, connected as official or director w^ith the Missouri and Kansas 
Telephone Company, Kansas City Railway and Light Company, Kansas City 
Viaduct and Terminal Company, Safety Savings and Loan Association and 
Elmwood Cemetery Society. He is a member of the Kansas City Club, Uni- 
versity Club, Commercial Club and the Railroad Club. 

In 1881 Mr. Downing married Miss Martha B. Collins of Jacksonville, 
Illinois, who died leaving two sons. In 1898 he married Miss Jessie Burnham, 
daughter of the late James K. Burnham of Kansas City, They have Iw^o 
daughters. 



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Able Attorney and Politician and a Specialist in 
Industrial Development. 

;jERRY CULBERTSON. descendant of a prominent family of the 
Old Dominion, was born in Bates County, Missouri, September 
12, 1869, the son of Livingston and Mary E. (Douglas) Culbert- 
son. His father was born in Scott County, Virginia, and came 
to Missouri in 1866, a pioneer of Bates County, and founder of 
Rich Hill, which he named. The elder Culbertson was a son of 
David Culbertson, a native of Virginia and a member of the 
legislature of that state in 1838. The latter, a native of Virginia and a 
descendant of Scotch ancestry, was a member of the family from which the 
famous Culbertson family of Texas is descended. Mary E. Douglas was a 
daughter of Colonel Geo. Douglas, a descendant of the "Red Douglases." 

Jerry Culbertson received his education in the common schools of Bates 
County and St. Francis Institute (Catholic) at Osage Mission, Kansas. He 
took a course in Bryant College at Sprague, Bates County, Missouri. He 
entered the law department of the University of Missouri, and after two years* 
course was graduated June 3, 1896. Four days later he was admitted to 
the bar before Judge James H. Lay, at Butler, Missouri, and at once opened 
an office at Rich Hill, Missouri. In the Fortieth General Assembly he served 
as senatorial revision clerk from the Seventeenth Senatorial District. 

March 3 1, 1900, he received the nomination for prosecuting attorney 
of Cass County on the Democratic ticket, and was elected. in 1905 Mr. 
Culbertson came to Kansas City and has made it his home since then, devoting 
his time to the study of permanent investments. He is the founder and presi- 
dent of both the International Exploration Company and the Culbertson 
Realty-Stock-Bond Corporation. 

Fraternally, he is a Mason, an Elk and a Modern Woodman. As an 
orator he possesses rare ability. He is a young man of strict integrity, with 
a high sense of honor, and even those whose political views differ widely 
from those which he entertains, consider him incapable of a dishonest or 
unmanly act. 

February 20, 1901, Mr. Culbertson married Miss Josephine Parsons, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Parsons, of Harrisonville, Missouri, one of 
the pioneer families of that place. They have three daughters. 



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Prominent Attorney with a Large Practice and for Two Terms 
County Accountant of Jackson County. 




AMUEL EPPSTEIN, one of the leading attorneys in Jackson 
county, was born in New York City in 1 862, the son of Elias 
and Fanny Eppstein. After obtaining the usual elementary ed- 
ucation he finally decided on the law as a profession and was 
admitted to the bar in 1893. For four years he was associated 
with George A. Neal, former United States district attorney, in 
a law firm which was one of the strongest in the city. And 

since that time Mr. Eppstein has been identified with no law firm, but has at 

various times gathered about him some of the most prominent young men 

of the profession. 

A Republican in politics, Mr. Eppstein has not been an office-seeker, 

preferring to give his time and attention to his practice. He did, however, 

serve Jackson count}' two terms as county accountant, taking office in 1896. 
Mr. Eppstein has been in Kansas City thirty-two years. He married 

Isabel Goldsmith of Cincinnati, Ohio. He is a Mason, a member of the Elks' 

lodge and the Royal Arcanum. 



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Consulting Engineer of National Reputation; President of the Kansas City 
Viaduct and Terminal Railway Company, 1907-1909. 




RA GRANT HEDRICK, of the firm of Hedrick & Cochrane, con- 
sulting engineers of national reputation, was born in West Salem, 
Illinois, April 6, 1868, the son of Henderson and Mary A. Hed- 
rick, who were both natives of Illinois. 

After completing the common school course, Mr. Hedrick 
entered the University of Arkansas from which he was graduated 
as civil engineer in 1892. He also has the degree of B. S., con- 
ferred by McGill University of Montreal, Canada, in 1898; M. S., in 1899 
and D. Sc, in 1900. 

Coming to Kansas City from Arkansas University, Mr. Hedrick began 
work at his profession in the office of J. A. L. Waddell and was afterwards 
taken into partnership, the firm being known as Waddell & Hedrick until 
1907. From that year until 1910, Mr. Hedrick was alone in business. Then 
he formed the firm of Hedrick & Cochrane, which has continued to the pres- 
ent time. 

Mr. Hedrick built the Inter-City Viaduct, which connects Kansas City, 
Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri, and from 1907 to 1909 was president of 
the Kansas City Viaduct and Terminal Railway Company, to which the struct- 
ure belongs. He has been connected with some of the most important engi- 
neering works in America. He built the bridge across the Red River at 
Denison, Texas, the Oak Cliff Viaduct, largest concrete viaduct in the world, 
at Dallas, Texas, and is now building bridges at Shreveport, Louisiana, Cedar 
Rapids, Iowa. Peoria, Illinois, Calvin, Oklahoma, and other places. 

In 1889 Mr. Hedrick married Louisa Luther and after her death mar- 
ried, in 1909, Addie M. Luther. He has four children. 

Mr. Hedrick is a member of the University Club and is an Elk and a 
Shriner. He also belongs to the American Association of Civil Engineers, 
Canadian Association of Civil Engineers, Institution of Civil Engineers of 
England and is an honorary member of the Rensselaer Society of Civil 
Engineers. 



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Prominent Attorney and Formerly a Member of the Board of 
Police Commissioners of Kansas City. 




ATTHEW A. FYKE was born in Marion county, Illinois, May 27. 
1848. the son of Josiah A. and Margaret Fyke. His father was 
born in Tennessee and his mother in Illinois. 

Mr. Fyke came to Kansas City in 1 886. He took up the 
law as his profession and after his admission to the bar for a 
time practiced alone. His first firm association was with Bob 
Hamilton. Later he was a member of the firm of Fay, Yates & 
Fyke, which gave place to the present firm of Fyke 6c Snyder. 

In 1894 Mr. Fyke was appointed a member of the Board of Police Com- 
missioners and served until 1898. He is a Democrat and one of the leading 
men of the party in Jackson county. October 19, 1871, Mr. Fyke married 
Jennie Bennett, who died in I 873. January 28, 1 896, he married Marian 
C. Estes. 

Mr. Fyke is a member of several Masonic bodies, belongs to the Knights 
of Pythias and the Commercial Club, and while holding a high place in the 
legal fraternity is a man who is keenly interested in the civic and industrial 
welfare of the community. 



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Kansas City Agent for the Missouri Pacific Railway and an 
Employe of the Road Since 1890. 




ILLIAM ROBERT LENCE, agent for the Missouri Pacific Railway 
in Kansas City, was born in Williamson county, Illinois, Decem- 
ber 31, 1871, the son of Eli and Lydia Hare Lence. His an- 
cestors were Pennsylvania Dutch and emigrated to Jonesboro, III- 
nois, in 1 806. His father served in the Union army three years 
^:i-i and a half during the Civil War, being present at the battles of 
Vicksburg and Mobile and other smaller engagements. 
With the common schools his sole source of education. Mr. Lence, at the 
age of fifteen, became an employe of a railroad and he has followed that 
calling ever since. He became associated with the Missouri Pacific Railway 
November 10, 1890, as a telegraph operator and has been steadily advanced 
until he was made the agent at Kansas City. 

November I, 1892, Mr. Lence married Miss Fannie Towl. Mr. Lence ii 
a Republican, a member of Ararat Temple, a Shriner, belongs to the West- 
ern Missouri Consistory, Kansas City Commandery No. 10, Odd Fellows and 
the Railroad Club. 



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CHARLES WHITTLE CLARKE 

S^^veyor of Customs, Port of Kansas City; Former Member of the 
Missouri State Senate. 

HARLES WHITTLE CLARKE was bom in Danville. Vermont, 
August 19, 1840. In the spring of 1849 his family removed to 
Ashtabula county, Ohio. Left an orphan when thirteen years 
old, at seventeen he was teaching school in northern Ohio and 
at nineteen he entered Hiram College, of which James A- Gar- 
field, afterwards President of the United States, was president. 
His first lessons in Latin were recited to Mrs. Garfield. 
Leaving college in 1861, Mr. Clarke entered the army as a private in the 
Forty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, commanded by Colonel Garfield, and 
served with that command until after the siege of Vicksburg. Follow^ing 
the fall of Vicksburg he was promoted to first lieutenant, and a year later 
was made a captain in the volunteer service. He took part in the battles 
of Big Sandy, Cumberland Gap, Chickasaw Bluff, Arkansas Post, Champion's 
Hill and the siege of Vicksburg. 

Mr. Clarke married M. Loveland February 14, 1866. at New Orleans, 
and engaged in the planting of cotton near Yazoo City. Mississippi. He 
was admitted to the bar in 1869, was a member of the constitutional con- 
vention of Mississippi, and as chairman of the committee on education wrote 
the article which gave that state its first public school. He served as pro- 
bate judge and judge of the court of common pleas at Greenville, Mississippi, 
w^as elected to the legislature from Washington county and was four times 
prosecuting attorney of what is known as the "Shoe String" district. 

A delegate to the national convention that nominated President Hayes, 
he also attended the one that nominated his old teacher, James A. Garfield. 
In 1904 he was a delegate at large from Missouri to the national convention 
at Chicago which nominated Theodore Roosevelt. He w^as elected to the 
Missouri legislature in 1896 and to the state senate in 1900. and re-elected 
in 1904. In 1906 he was appointed surveyor of customs at Kansas City and 
re-appointed in 1 9 1 0. His first w^ife having died, he married Miss Janie 
Croysdale of Kansas City, Missouri, in 1906. 

Senator Clarke is a member of the First Christian Church. Grand Army 
of the Republic, Loyal Legion, Royal Arch Masons and Odd Fellows. He 
came to Kansas City in 1883. 



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JOHN LYLE HARRINGTON 

One of the Most Prominent Consulting Engineers in the West and 
Known Throughout the Country. 




:|OHN LYLE HARRINGTON, well known throughout the United 
States as a consulting engineer, was born in Lawrence, Kansas, 
December 7, 1868, the son of Robert Charles and Angeline Vir- 
ginia (Henry) Harrington. For four generations the ancestors 
were American born. 

Follow^ing his completion of the grade and high schools, 
Mr. Harrington entered Kansas University at Lawrence, from 
which he was graduated in 1895 with the degrees of A.B., B.S. and C.E. He 
obtained the degree of B.S. from McGill University, Montreal, Canada, in 1906. 
and M.S. in 1908. Mr. Harrington married Daisy June Orton of White 
Cloud, Kansas, June 2 7, 1899. They have one child. 

During 1895-96 Mr. Harrington was associated with J. A. L. Waddeli. 
Consulting Engineer, Kansas City; later, in 1896, with the Elmira Bridge 
Company; Pencoyd Iron Works, Philadelphia, 1896-7; Keystone Bridge Works. 
1897-8, designing the Monongaheia railroad bridge and other heavy structures 
for the Pittsburgh, Bessemer ^ Lake Erie Railroad; assistant superintendent 
structural department Cambria Steel Company at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, 
in 1893; assistant chief engineer and assistant superintendent Bucyrus Com- 
pany, Milwaukee, from September. 1898, to March, 1899; assistant to chief 
engineer North\vestern Elevated Railway Company, Chicago, from March to 
December, 1899; designing engineer Berlin Iron Bridge Company of Connec- 
ticut, 1899 to 1900; assistant engineer buildings and bridges Baltimore & 
Ohio Railroad, 1900-1 ; with the C. W. Hunt Company, in charge of engineer- 
ing estimating and contracting, 1 90 1 -5; chief engineer The Locomotive &c 
Machine Company. Montreal. 1905-6. 

January, 1907, the firm of Waddeli ^ Harrington, Consulting Engineers, 
was formed and located in Kansas City. It is now^ one of the leading firms 
of its kind in the West. 

Mr. Harrington is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. 
Institution of Civil Engineers of Great Britain, American Society of Mechanical 
Engineers. Canadian Society of Civil Encineers, Society for Promotion of Engi- 
neering. He belongs to the Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, and Sigma Nu fraternities, 
also to the Rensselaer Society of Engineers and the University Club. 



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CHARLES SUMNER CRYSLER 

Prominent and Successful Attorney, a Member of the Law Firm 
of Harkless, Crysler & Misted. 




;HARLES SUMNER CRYSLER, prominent attorney and a member 
of the well known law firm of Harkless, Crysler & Histed, lo- 
cated in the Grand Avenue Temple, was born in Marcellus, New 
York, August 21, 1856, the son of Cornell and Nancy Crysler, 
both natives of New York state. 

On coming to Jackson County, Missouri, Mr. Crysler began 

reading law with Corning and Slover in Independence, and was 

admitted to the bar in 1879. Since that time he has built up an extensive 

general practice and his firm is among the most prominent and successful in 

the city. The present firm was organized in 1 890. 

A Republican in politics, Mr. Crysler has never sought favors at the 
hand of his party, but has put his time and energy into his business. October 
1, 1879, he married Harriet Child. 

Mr. Crysler is a member of the Kansas City Club and the Mid-Day Club, 
and is a life member of the Elks lodge. He has acted as special judge several 
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MAURICE L. ALDEN 



Prominent Attorney of Kansas City, Kansas, and Former Public Administrator 

of Wyandotte County. 




■jAURICE L. ALDEN, one of the best known attorneys in Kansas 
City, Kansas, and a former public administrator for Wyandotte 
County, Kansas, was born in Kansas City, Kansas, October I 0, 
1873, the son of Henry L. and Mary F. Alden. Mr. Alden's 
ancestral tree leads back, directly to John Alden, who came to 
America in the Mayflow^er in 1620 and whom Longfellow^ made 
one of the leading characters in his poem, "The Courtship of 
Miles Standish." Mr. Alden's father was born in Greenwich, Massachusetts, 
and his mother was a native of Albany, New York. 

After completing the public schools, Mr. Alden entered Kansas Uni- 
versity and was graduated in 1895 with the degree of B. A. He then entered 
Columbian University, Washington, D. C, and w^as graduated from the law 
department in 1897. He at once returned to Kansas City, where he began 
active practice and has enjoyed an extensive and select clientele. From I 902 
to 1906 he served Wyandotte County as public administrator. 

October 10, 1901, Mr. Alden married Edna W. Warkentin, of Newton, 
Kansas. They have two sons, John and Bernhard. In politics, Mr. Alden is 
a Republican. 



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CHARLES H. KUEHNE 

President of the Kuehne-Chastain Commission Compciny and a Pioneer 
in Celery Raising on a Large Scale. 




HARLES H. KUEHNE, president of the Kuehne-Chastain Commis- 
sion Company, was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1852, the 
son of Carl G. and Rosalie Kuehne. The ancestral stock was 
from Saxony. 

IVlr. Kuehne came to Kansas City from Milwaukee in 1 882 
and entered the commission business. In 1886 he formed a 
partnership with D. E. Smeltzer, the firni name being The D. E. 
Smeltzer Company, doing a general produce commission business. This part- 
nership continued until Mr. Smeltzer's death in 1902 when Mr. Kuehne incor- 
porated under the name of The Charles H. Kuehne Commission Company 
and in 19 10 re-incorporated as the Kuehne-Chastain Commission Company, 
of which he is president. Mr. Kuehne is also interested in the celery business 
in California, w^here he has the largest and most modern celery farm in the 
United States, the business being handled under the firm name of The Golden 
West Celery and Produce Company. This farm w^as started with twenty acres 
and now occupies six hundred acres, tiled and irrigated from artesian wells. 
Mr. Kuehne has been twice married, his present w^ife being formerly 
Jennie Schuette. They were married in 1906. Mr. Kuehne has a son and 
daughter by his first marriage. 

A member of the Commercial Club, Mr. Kuehne also belongs to the 
National League of Commission Merchants and the Western Fruit Jobbers. 
His company, which is one of the largest in Kansas City, is located at 520-522 
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JAMES T. BRADLEY 

Cashier of the National Bank of Commerce and a Financier Whose 
Reputation Extends Throughout the Country. 




^AMES T. BRADLEY, cashier of the National Bank of Commerce 
and for seven years a national bank examiner, was born in Lon- 
don, Ontario, July M , I 856, the son of George and Martha 
Bradley. His father emigrated to Canada from Yorkshire, Eng- 
land, in 1838, and the family moved to Missouri in 187L In 
1875 Mr. Bradley, the son, went to Kansas, settling in Sedan, 
where he lived for thirty-three years. He came to Kansas City 
in 1908. On coming to Kansas City he had a national reputation in financial 
circles, having been in the banking business for twenty-eight years. 

Mr. Bradley followed up his common school education with a course in 
the Kansas State Normal College and later served Chautauqua County, 
Kansas, as county superintendent of schools four years, was mayor of Sedan 
two terms, was a delegate from Kansas to the Republican National Conven- 
tion of 1900 which nominated McKinley and Roosevelt and was a member 
of the committee that notified Mr. Roosevelt of his nomination as vice-presi- 
dent of the United States. 

In 1879 Mr. Bradley married Miss Dora Gray. They have three children. 
Mrs. C. L. Kinney, James Ormond Bradley and Charles H. Bradley. 

On coming to Kansas City Mr. Bradley became associated with the 
National Bank of Commerce, one of the strongest banking institutions in the 
West and of which he is now cashier. He is a thirty-second degree Mason 
and a member of the Mid-Day Club. 



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GEORGE H. KELLY 

Prominent Attorney; Member of the Firm of 
Brewster, Kelly, Brewster & Buchholz. 




EORGE H. KELLY, one of Kansas City's prominent attorneys 
and a member of the law firm of Brewster, Kelly, Brewster & 
Buchholz. in the Scarritt building, was born December I, 1874, 
in Knobnoster, Missouri, the son of Samuel G. and Belle Kelly. 
His father, a native of Pennsylvania, was admitted to the bar in 
Missouri in the early '60s and three times represented Johnson 
County in the state legislature. His mother was a native of Ohio. 
After finishing the grade and high school courses, Mr. Kelly entered the 
University of Michigan, from which he was graduated in 1 696. He then came 
to Kansas City and began practicing. He has twice served the county in the 
capacity of assistant prosecuting attorney, having been an assistant under 
Herbert Hadley, now governor, when he was prosecuting attorney, and again 
under I. B. Kimbrell. 

As a Republican Mr. Kelly has rendered efficient service to his party in 
many of the recent campaigns. He is a man of exceptional talents and one of 
'he best attorneys in the county. He is a member of the Elks, Masons, Phi 
Kappi Psi, and the Commercial Club. 



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JOHN ALEXANDER LOW WADDELL 

Consulting Engineer of Waddell & Harrington, and Known in 
Engineering Circles All Over the World. 




^OHN ALEXANDER LOW WADDELL. of the firm of Waddell 6t 

Harrington, consulting engineers, Kansas City, Missouri, and 
Vancouver, British Columbia, was born in Port Hope, Ontario. 
January 15, 1854, son of Angeline Ester and Robert Needham 
Waddell. He was educated in Trinity College, Port Hope; Rens- 
selaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York (C. E. 1875), and 
McGill University (B. A. Sc. 1882; Ma. E., 1682; D. Sc. 1904)- 
He was given the degree of LL. D. by Missouri University, 1 904 ; D. E.. 
Nebraska University, 1911; decorated by Emperor of Japan, 1888, Knight 
Commander Order of the Rising Sun. and by Grand Duchess Olga of Russia. 
First Class Order Societe de Bienfaisance, for service as principal engineer 
of Trans-Siberian Railway. 

He began his career as draftsman. Marine Department. Ottawa, Ontario, 
1875, engineering field work, Canadian Pacific Railway, 1876-1877; assist- 
ant professor rational and techinal mechanics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Insti- 
tute, 1878-1880, and technical mechanics, 1 878- 1 880; chief engineer, Ray- 
mond & Campbell, bridge builders. Council Bluffs, Iowa. I 88 I- I 882; pro- 
fessor civil engineering, Imperial University of Japan, 1882-1896, and in pri- 
vate practice in Kansas City, Missouri, since 1887, alone to 1899, Waddell 6c 
Hedrick, to 1906, and present partnership from 1906. 

Mr. Waddell's works are in all parts of the world and are too numerous 
to catalogue in so limited a space. He has done much of the most important 
constructive work in Mexico, United States and Canada. He built one of 
the bridges over the Missouri at Kansas City and the Inter-City Viaduct. 

He married Ada Everett of Council Bluffs, Iowa, in 1882. They have 
two sons and a daughter. He belongs to the Country Club, University Club, 
Engineers Club of Kansas City and is a member of most of the engineering 
and scientific societies of the world and Honorable Member of Tau Beta Pi and 
Phi Beta Kappa. 



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CHARLES SACHS 

General Agent for the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company 
and Active in Civic and Charitable Enterprises. 




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" HARLES SACHS, one of the most prominent insurance men in 
the Southwest, is a native son of Kansas City, having been born 
here August 20, 1869, the son of Robert and Rosalie Sachs, local 
pioneers. He was educated in local schools, working as office 
boy in a law office during summer vacations. His first full time 
employment was with the old Citizens* National Bank, where he 
remained several years, becoming later manager of the Clear- 
Then Mr. Sachs decided on a life insurance career and in 1898 
he moved to Chicago to become associated with the company for which 
he has been one of the largest producers ever since. In 1905 he w^as selected 
to take charge of a territory w^ith headquarters in his native city. In Chicago 
he married Miss Flora Weil, a cultured and charming young woman. With 
their two children they live in an attractive home at 3523 Charlotte street, 
are "first-nighters " at the theater, and patrons of art and music. 

Nor has personal interest alone commanded all of Mr, Sachs* w^orking 
hours. He has given much time to civic movements and tow^ard alleviating 
the conditions of the poor and delinquent. Since the organization of the 
Pure Milk Commission, he has been one of the officers, and is now^ chairman 
of its advisory board. He was especially prominent in the notable "river" 
campaign of the Commercial Club. He is also a member of the Mid-Day, 
City and Knife and Fork Clubs, and treasurer of the Progress Club, which 
recently bought the beautiful Rule farm as a home. He is a director of 
the United Jewish Charities, and has given energy and money to the support 
of the Institutional Church, Boys' Hotel, Girls' Hotel and many other simi- 
lar institutions. 

In 19 10 Mr. Sachs was a delegate representing Kansas City at the 
National Conservation Congress in St. Paul. A few years ago he was chosen 
by the Kansas City Ad Club to deliver an address at a banquet given in St. 
Louis for the National Association of Advertising Clubs. He has alw^ays been 
a warm friend of the newspaper fraternity. 



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JAMES D. M. CROCKETT 

Certified Public Accountant, Head of one of the Best Known Accounting 
Firms in the Southw^est. 




AMES D. M. CRCCKETT. head of J. D. M. Crockett & Co,, 
certified public accountants, was born near Pictou, Nova Scotia, 
Canada. July 2, 1868, the son of Duncan Ross and Ellen Robert- 
son Crockett. His father was a Presbyterian minister and a mis- 
sronary among the Indians. Both parents w^ere of Scotch ances- 
try and both were natives of Nova Scotia. 

After obtaining a common school education. Mr. Crockett 
completed the courses of the academy and college at Brookfield, Missouri. 
November 2, 1895, Mr. Crockett married Miss Mel lie Wise. They have one 
daughter. Ida Winifred. 

Mr. Crockett came to Kansas City in 1890, took a couse in shorthand, 
and held various positions from stenographer to office manager, until he 
started his own business in 1906. Today J. D. M. Crockett & Co. is one ot 
the best known accounting firms in the Southv^i'est, having an office in the 
Grand Avenue Temple, Kansas City, and a branch office in Topeka, Kansas. 
In 1903 and again in 1908-9, Mr. Crockett served as a member of the 
school board in one of the suburban districts adjacent to Kansas City, Kansas. 
Since he was fourteen years old, he has been an active member of the Presby- 
terian church and is at present an officer of the Grand View Park Presby- 
terian Church. He is also a member of the Brotherhood of American Yeoman, 
the Kansas City Society of Certified Public Accountants, the Missouri Society 
of Certified Public Accountants and the American Association of Public Ac- 
countants. 



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GEORGE M. MYERS 

President Standard Fire Extinguisher Company and for Twenty-five 
Years Connected with Priests of Pallas. 




GEORGE M. MYERS, who brought the International Balloon laces 
to Kansas City in 1911, was born November 25, It55, m New 
York City. His father, Philip Myers, was connected with the 
freight department of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Rail- 
road for more than forty years. Like most of the successful men 
of the West Mr. Myers started life working on a farm in summer 
and attending school in the winter months. Having a predilec- 
tion for telegraphy he studied during his spare moments and secured a po- 
sition as night operator at Berea, Ohio. 

Through close application to business he gradually arose, first to be train 
dispatcher of two divisions, then manager of the Toledo office. In 1874 he 
resigned and came West, locating in Kansas City, where he w^as connected 
with the various telegraph companies doing business here at the time. Th;:i 
was before the Western Union Telegraph Company had absorbed these liner, 
and when this occurred, Mr. Myers went into business for himself. He has 
large property interests and is president of the Standard Fire Extinguisher 
Company, which he organized and which insialls automatic fire devices. He 
is a member of the Kansas City Athletic Club and the Evanston Golf Club. 
In 1882 he married Miss Laura V. Boyd. Both have traveled extensively in 
foreign countries. 

George M. Myers for over thirty years has been identified with Kansas 
City and has taken an active part in every movement for betterment. For 
twenty-five years he has been connected with the Priests of Pallas, for several 
years as treasurer of the organization. He organized and built the Pacific 
Mutual Telegraph Company, which extended from St. Louis to Denver, Omaha 
and Sioux City, and later sold out his interests to the Postal Telegraph Com- 
pany. He organized the Commerc'al Telegraph Company, now the American 
District Telegraph Company, in Cincinnati, St. Louis and Kansas City, and 
later sold to the Western Union Telegraph Company. 



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ARNOLD DOUGLAS COTTINGHAM 

Largest Mule Dealer in the Country; Exalted Ruler of the 
Kansas City Lodge of Elks. 




RNOLD DOUGLAS COTTINGHAM gives Kansas City one of the 
distinctions credited to her in the live stock markets of the 

world he handles more mules than any other individual. In 

his twenty-five years of business in Kansas City he has built up 
a trade that provides an outlet for an annual average of 
10,000 mules and many horses from the farms of Missouri and 
Kansas and surrounding states. His mule and horse business 
occupies a barn space of over three square blocks at the Kansas City stock 
yards and a 280-acre feeding plant near Hickman's Mills, Missouri. Mules are 
sold from his barns to practically every state in the Union and to foreign 
buyers. 

Although he is the owner and manager of the largest individual mule 
business in the world, Mr. Cottingham finds time to act as director of two of 
the leading financial institutions of the city — the National Bank of the Republic 

and the Fidelity Trust Company and as director of the American Royal Live 

Stock Show. He is also Exalted Ruler of the Kansas City Lodge of Elks and a 
member of many other organizations, including the Commercial Club, and is 
alw^ays active in charitable work. 

Mr. Cottingham's parents were Kentuckians of English and Irish descent. 
He was born in Carroll County, Missouri, January 9, 1862. In engaging in 
the mule business, Mr. Cottingham followed his father, who was also a stock- 
man. Mr. Cottingham started in the trade here with his brother, John R., 
under the firm name of Cottingham Brothers. The brother died in 1898. but 
Mr. Cottingham still conducts the business under the original title. On Sep- 
tember 19, 1891, Mr. Cottingham married Miss Gettie Ralls, a Kansas City 
girl. 



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SHERMAN W. NOGGLE 

President of the S. W. Noggle Wholesale and Manufacturing Company, 
With Business Covering the Entire West. 




HERMAN W. NOGGLE. president and treasurer of the S. W. Nog- 
gle Wholesale and Manufacturing Company, was born in Ada, 
Ohio, in 1870, son of John and Laura Noggle. His father was 
born in Pennsylvania and his mother in Ohio. 

Mr. Noggle came to Kansas City in 1893. He was at that 
time in the employ of J. H. Hampson, a pioneer railroad builder, 
who was heavily interested in the West and Old Mexico. Mr. 
Hampson established headquarters in Kansas City and Mr. Noggle, until the 
formation of his ow^n company, served as his private secretary. 

In 1897 Mr. Noggle founded The S. W. Noggle Wholesale and Manu- 
facturing Company to supply the bakers, confectioners and ice cream makers 
of the West and Southwest with machinery, tools and supplies. From its 
inception the company has had a remarkable success, until it now enjoys the 
distinction of being the largest house of its kind in the West, if not in the 
United States. It has tw^ice outgrown its quarters. The original location at 
6 1 2 Broadway served for only seven years, when it was found necessary to 
move to 614-18 Delaware. After six years of steady growth there the build- 
ing which now occupies a quarter of a block at Sixteenth street and Baltimore 
avenue was erected and is now the home of the company. "The Bull Dog," 
devoted to the interests of the bakers, confectioners, ice cream makers and 
soda water dispensers, is published and distributed by the company and 
receives the hearty support and endorsement of all its patrons. 

Mr. Noggle in 1900 married Miss Jennie L. Pierce. They have one 
daughter. Deeply interested in the development of Kansas City, Mr. Noggle 
is identified with many of the public and commercial organizations, being an 
active member of the Rotary, Kansas City, Athletic and Commercial Clubs. 
The fact that Mr. Noggle has served three years on the board of directors of 
the Manufacturers' Association and two terms as treasurer, is evidence of his 
standing in the community. 



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FRANK J. DEAN 

President Dean Hotel Company, Operating the Hotel Baltimore in 
Kansas City, Missouri. 




]RANK JAMES DEAN was born June 25. 1686, in New York 
City. He is the son of the late Delevan James Dean, who died 
January 15, 1911, and Annie L. Dean, still living. 

The elder Mr. Dean conducted, during his active career, 
hotels in Sherman, New York, Wichita, Pittsburg, Fort Scott, 
Kansas, St. Joseph and Kansas City, Missouri. When death 
called him, he was president of the Dean Hotel Company, oper- 
ating the Hotel Baltimore in Kansas City. Frank J. Dean comes of English 
and German stock. His first schooling was received in the public schools 
of Missouri and Kansas. Then he was sent to a private preparatory school, 
winding up with a term in business college. This training fully prepared Mr. 
Dean and launched him on his hotel career, which he began as assistant in 
the auditor's office of the Hotel Baltimore. This was in August, 1904, and 
between 1904 and 1907 he was engaged in every department of the hotel 
business. In 1907 Mr. Dean had won the title of auditor, the result of his 
patient, painstaking application to his duties. June. 1 909, found the young 
man promoted to the associate managership; later the same year he became 
vice-president and general manager, and, upon the death of his father, he was 
elected president of the Dean Hotel Company. He was also first president 
of the Kansas City Hotel and Restaurant Men's Association. 

As Mr. Dean's ambition did not extend to political offices, he has held 
none. He is a Thirty-second degree, Scottish Rite, Mason, also a member of 
the Commandery and Shrine. June 16, 1909, he married Fay Harkless. They 
have a son, F. J., Jr, 

Mr. Dean is a member of the Commercial Club and of the Evanston 

Golf Club. 



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HUNTER MACKEAND MERIWETHER 

President of Federal Investment Company and an Attorney of High Stand- 
ing and Extensive Practice. 




lUNTER MACKEAND MERIWETHER, son of Dr. James Hunter 
Meriwether and Lucy E. (McClure) Meriwether, was born July 
21, 1861, at Pecan Grove Plantation, Crittenden County, Arkan 
sas. The family of Meriwether is closely connected with the 
early history of Virginia and Kentucky. Mr. Meriwether received 
his education at Greene Springs Academy. Alabama, and at Van- 
derbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, graduating with the de- 
grees of B. S. and LL. B. He became assistant professor of mathematics at 
Vanderbilt University, and, having read law. he adopted that profession, 
at which he has practiced in Kansas City, Missouri, since 1885, giving 
special attention to real estate law^, corporation matters and questions w^hich 
involved taxation. 

Mr. Meriw^ether was sole counsel for Missouri, in the Western Union 
Telegraph franchise case, which he won in the Supreme Court; he was also 
special counsel for Missouri, in the United States Supreme Court in the impor- 
tant State Line case against Kansas. He is president of the Federal Invest- 
ment Company, West Missouri Land Company, and the Edgewater Terminal 
Railway Company, now affiliated with the Missouri Pacific Railway Company. 
He is a member of the Phi Delta Theta college fraternity, and is affiliated 
with the Masonic order, and of the Royal Arch, K. C. Chapter No. 28; also 
of the Society of Colonial Wars, and of the Kansas City Athletic Club and 
the Young Men's Christian Association. September 28, 1887, Mr. Meri- 
wether married Lucy Underwood Western of Bowling Green, Kentucky. They 
have two children, William Western and Juliet Elgin Meriwether. 



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WILLIAM CHRISTIAN WEAVER 

Street Commissioner of Kansas City Under the Administration of Mayor 

Darius A. Brown. 




ILLIAM CHRISTIAN WEAVER, street commissioner of Kansas 
City during 1910 and 1911, under the Brown administration, was 
born in Clinton, Pennsylvania, October 6, 1862, the son of Joseph 
and Isabella M. (Johnston) Weaver. His father was a native of 
Clinton, Pennsylvania. His mother was born in County Tyrone, 
Ireland, and was a direct descendant of Sir William Johnston of 
Scotland. 
Weaver, after obtaining the usual elementary training, entered Duffs 
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and was graduated in 1880. From the 
first he showed ability for handling men, and. in time, came to be general 
manager of the Ogden Electric Railway Company, Ogden, Utah. Later he 
was receiver for the Bear River Irrigation Company and was with the Ogden 
Water Works Company for five years. On coming to Kansas City he was 
made general manager of the Northeast Electric Railway prior to its consoli- 
dation with the Metropolitan Street Railway System. 

When Mayor Brown went into office he appointed Mr. Weaver street 
commissioner, and that Kansas City has never had a more efficient man in 
that capacity was demonstrated during the unprecedented snows of 1 9 I 1 - I 9 I 2, 
when Mr. Weaver handled the situation to the entire satisfaction of every- 
body with an inadequate force and with limited funds. 

Mr. Weaver knows personally almost every newspaper writer in Kansas 
City and commands their friendship, regardless of their affiliations. He is a 
Republican of liberal and progressive views, a Kansas City booster, belongs 
to the Masons and is a Shriner. 

December 8, 1886. Mr. Weaver married Mary E. Ewart of Minneapolis, 
Kansas. They have two daughters. 



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EDWIN CLEMENT MESERVEY 

President of the Kansas City Board of Civil Service and 
Former City Counselor. 




DWIN CLEMENT MESERVEY. president of the Board of Civil Serv- 
ice of Kansas City, Missouri, and city counselor under the Beards- 
ley administration, an attorney called frequently to advise the 
city in franchise negotiations, was born in Hallov^'ell, Maine, 
March 4, 1861. His father, Thomas j. Meservey. and mother, 
Mary H. (Brooks) Meservey, were natives of Maine, the former 
having been born in Hallowel! and the latter in York. 
Mr. Meservey was graduated from the University of Kansas, with the 
degree of A. B., in 1882, and in 1885 received the degree of LL. B. from 
the St. Louis Law School. August 18, 1 89 1 , he married Bessie M. Harris. 
They have three children, Francis H., Edwin C, and Mary Bess. 

One of the strong men in the Republican party of Missouri, Mr. Meser- 
vey is a member of the Jackson County Bar Association and belongs to the 
Phi Kappa Psi, Phi Delta Phi and Phi Beta Kappa fraternities, as well as an 
active member of several club organizations which have civic improvement 
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CARTER 

Prominent Attorney in Kansas City; Formerly County Atlorney for 
Wilson County, Kansas. 




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ENJAMIN FRANKLIN CARTER, prominent attorney in Kanras 
City and formerly county attorney for Wilson County, Kanras, 
was born in Fredonia, Kansas, January 15, 1871, the ton of 
James and Sarah Carter. Mr. Carter's parents were from Lin- 
' nlnshire, England. They came to Illinois in I860 and to Kan- 
sas in 1871. A short time before the birth of the son the fa'.hcr 
was murdered and the mother robbed of her property. 



Carter received a common school education and then entered the 
Kanr:as State Normal school, from which he was graduated in 1895. For 
several years following his graduation, he was a teacher in, and later principal 
of, the Fredonia, Kansas, high school. During his spare time he studied law, 
for which he had always shown natural qualifications and in due time was 
admitted to the bar. 

Having, in the meantime, moved from Fredonia to Neodesha, Kanras. 
Mr. Carter was elected city attorney there by the Republican party, in which 
office he served four years; later he was elected county attorney for Wilson 
County on the Republican ticket and served two years to the satisfaction of 
all. He came to Kansas City. December 29, 1909, and is now associated in 
general practice with Judge William Thomson, well known throughout the 
state. 

August 8, 1897, Mr. Carter married Jennie Prunty. He is a member of 
Ivanhoe Masonic Lodge, is an Elk and a Knight of Pythias. 



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WILLIAM S. COWHERD 

Attorney and Democratic Leader; Former Mayor of Kansas City and 
Former Congressman From the Fifth District. 




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ILLIAM S. COWHERD, Democratic leader, former Mayor of 
Kansas City, and an attorney of national reputation, was born 
September I. 1€60, on his grandfather's farm between Lees 
Summit and Blue Springs, Jackson County, Missouri, the son of 
Charles J. and Emilie Strother Cowherd, the Cowherd family 
having been pioneers in the West, coming from Virginia. 

General Order Number Eleven, which made General Ewing 
heavily on the Cowherd family, but after the border warfare 



c'ays the farm again came into his grandfather's possession and today it is 
owned by the grandson, the subject of this sketch. 

William S. Cowherd got his early education "wherever he found it" 

rome of it from the teacher in the log school house, some of it from papers and 
books; much of it from observation and when seventeen years old was ad- 
mitted to Missouri University, was graduated in 1881, and a year later left 
Columbia with a "sheepskin" entitling him to practice law. He entered the 
law office of Tichenor, Warner & Dean, where he remained one year, then 
he began practice on his own account. 

Being a young man with all the qualifications of a successful leader. Mr. 
Cowherd naturally found opportunity in the service of the people. In 1884 
he held his first public office, having been appointed first assistant prosecut- 
ing attorney. Returning to private practice, four years later he formed a 
rartnership with the late Judge William B. Teasdale and R. J. Ingraham. In 
1690 he was made assistant city counselor and two years later the Democratic 
party elected him mayor of Kansas City, although he was but thirty-two years 
old. After completing his term as mayor, Mr. Cowherd entered the race for 
Congress from the Fifth District and was elected, serving four consecutive 
terms. 

In the primary of August, 1908, Mr. Cowherd was made the Demo- 
cratic candidate for governor and in the subsequent election lost by a very 
small majority to Herbert S. Hadley. 

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ROBERT ALEXANDER LONG 

President of the Long-Bell Lumber Company and Subsidiary Concerns 
and a Noted Church Worker. 




,mBERT ALEXANDER LONG, president of the Long-Bell Lumber 
^1 Company, was born December 17, 1850, on a farm near Shelby- 
ville. Kentucky, the son of Samuel M. and Margaret K. Long. 
His mother was closely related to the noted Blackburn family. 
( r jllfl^^^~^ ^^* '^^'^S was educated principally in the country schools, 

ijf y ^^%/l but spent fifteen months in a school for boys at Shelbyville. At 
the age of seventeen he found employment in a store. This 
proved not to his liking, so he returned to the farm in a short time, remain- 
ing there until twenty-two years of age, when he went West. Shortly after- 
ward he established a small lumber yard at Columbus, Kansas. 

Working early and late, and reinvesting his profits, Mr. Long rose stead- 
ily, until today he controls thirteen lumber companies, which ovk^n eleven 
modern sawmill plants and eighty-seven retail lumber yards. He is presi- 
dent and principal stockholder of the R. A. Long Real Estate and Investment 
Company, which owns the R. A. Long Building, the first steel skeleton office 
building of consequence in Kansas City. Two entire floors in this building 
are occupied by the offices of The Long-Bell Lumber Company. He is also 
a director in the Kansas Natural Gas Company, the National Bank of Com- 
merce and Commerce Trust Company of Kansas City, and the Yellow Pine 
Manufacturers' Association. 

Notwithstanding his numerous business interests, Mr. Long finds time 
to take a more than active part in the affairs of the Christian Church, of which 
he is a member. He is also national president of the Brotherhood of Disciples 
of Christ and president of the Christian Board of Publication which publishes 
the Christian Evangelist in St. Louis. 

During his long residence in Kansas City, Mr. Long has always been 
actively identified with important movements for the upbuilding and better- 
ment of the city. He is also noted for his numerous charities. 

Mr. Long was married at Columbus, Kansas, December 16, 1875, to Ella 
M. Wilson. They have two daughters, Mrs. Ellis, wife of Lieutenant Hayne 
Ellis, U. S. N., and Miss Loula Long, well known in Horse Show circles. 



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ED T. OREAR 

Real Estate Dealer* Treasurer Consumers' Bread Company, and Former 
Treasurer of Missouri. 




D T. OREAR, prominent real estate dealer and treasurer of the 
Consumers' Bread Company, was born in Saline County, Missouri, 
August 20, 185 7, the son of Nelson C. and Anna E. Orear. Th^ 
senior Orear came to Missouri from Kentucky in 185 5 and 
located in St. Charles, where he started a newspaper. 

Mr. Orear is a Democrat and has been prominent for years 
in all movements w^hich had the improvement of the state in 
view^. He was for seven years State Treasurer when the office was appointive, 
and for four years served as superintendent of the insurance department of the 
state. 

Coming to Kansas City in 1906, Mr. Orear at once took a conspicuous 
place in commercial circles. In that year he organized the Gate City Bank 
and in 1909 aided in the organization of the Consumers' Bread Company, 
which has been a marked success. In 1909 he built the Orear-Leslie Building 
at 1012 Baltimore Avenue, eleven stories tall, and one of the most modern 
structures in the city. 

Mr. Orear w^as educated in Missouri University and in 1885 married Helen 
Owens of Sweet Springs, Missouri. They have two sons, John and Edward. 
Mr. Orear is a Knight Templar and a member of several clubs. 



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Pastor of the Grand Avenue Methodist Church and a 
Traveler and Lecturer of Note. 




EV. EDWIN B. OLMSTEAD, only surviving son of the late Rev. 
D. C. Olmstead, D.D., for many years prominent in the Methodist 
Church in New York and Pennsylvania, was born in the Methodist 
parsonage at Danby, near Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York. 
He graduated from Wyoming Seminary m 1876 with high honors 
and then entered Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut. 
After leaving college Dr. Olmstead studied law at Wilkes-Barre, 
Pennsylvania. He entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church 

in 1882. His appointments have been as follows: Wyoming Conference 

April, 1882, to April, 1883, Oneonta Plains, New York; April, 1883, to April, 
1885, Laurens, New York, and Oneonta Plains; April, 1885, to April, 1888, 
Great Bend, Pennsylvania; April, 1888, to April, 1890, Say re, Pennsylvania; 
April, 1890, to April, 1894, Broad Street Church, Norwich, New York; April. 
1894, to April, 1899, Tabernacle Church, Binghamton, New York. Genesee 

Conference April 17, 1899, to October 10, 1904, Asbury Church, Rochester, 

New York. Holston Conference October 10, 1904, to April 21, 1909, First 

Church, Knoxville, Tennessee. St. Louis Conference — April 21, 1909, Grand 
Avenue Church, Kansas City, Missouri. He was trustee of Wesleyan University 
in 1896 and 1897. 

During his pastorate in New York, Pennsylvania and Tennessee, Dr. 
Olmstead was in frequent demand as a lecturer. In 1889, 1896, 1901 and 
1908, he toured the Old World and his letters on foreign travel have been 
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ANDREW J. HAZELTON 

Manager of the Hydraulic-Press Brick Company, and a Recognized 
Expert in His Line. 




NDREW J. HAZELTON. manager of the Hydraulic-Press Brick 
Company of Kansas City, and one of the brick experts of the 
West, was born in Indiana, April 9, 1662, the son of James J. 
and Elizabeth Hazelton. Both parents were born in Ohio. 

After obtaining the usual common school education, Mr. 
Hazelton became associated with the brick industry and, after 
informing himself on the methods of manufacturing and the de- 
tails of the business, he was made manager of the Hydraulic-Press Brick 
Company in Chanute, Kansas, w^here he served for five years. He then went 
to Omaha, Nebraska, and for four years served in the same capacity, being 
made manager of the Kansas City Company, effective March 1 , 1912. 

In 1892, Mr. Hazelton married Josie L. Leitch. They have one child. 
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CHARLES PERVINE SHIPLEY 



Executive Head of the Charles P. Shipley Saddlery and Mercantile Company, 
Established Twenty-seven Years Ago. 




HARLES PERVINE SHIPLEY, youngest son of Aaron and Eliza- 
beth Shipley, was born October 2 7, 1864, in Wooster, Ohio, 
where he received a common school education and learned the 
harness and saddlery trade. He came to Kansas City in 1 884 
and in August, 1885, started to manufacture leather goods on a 
capita! of $300, borrowed from a friend. The business pros- 
pered and gradually expanded until today the name of Shipley 
is known in practically every corner of the earth where leather goods are 
used. 

In 1910 Mr. Shipley erected the Shipley Building at the Kansas City 
Stock Yards, one of the first ever constructed for this kind of business. It 
contains 24,000 square feet of floor space and every modern appliance for 
the making of leather goods. 

Mr. Shipley married Miss Cora May Hendrickson in 1886, and to them 
three children were born. The second son, Clyde Lee Shipley, is associated 
in the business with his father as vice-president and sales manager. 

The Shipley Company understands, through a quarter century of asso- 
ciation, the Stock Yards and Western cowboy trade, and for the convenience 
of its customers compiles a catalog, showing leather goods and uniforms 
representing Western life in all its phases. More than 100,000 of these cata- 
logs have been distributed. 

Mr. Shipley is also president of the Western Harness and Manufacturers' 
Association, and is active in all measures that tend to make Kansas City a 
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PHILIP KRAUS 

A Pioneer Merchant in Kansas City and Clay County; Now Retired from 

Active Business. 




HILIP KRAUS, who in 185 7 established an Indian trading business 
out of Kansas City, and who for twenty-one years was post- 
master at Harlem, in Clay County, was born in Germany, April 
26, 1831, the son of Johann and Katherine Kraus, who came 
from near the Switzerland border in Germany. 

Mr. Kraus came to America in 1850, his capital being 
twenty-five dollars in money and the determination to make a 
success. For several years he sold oilcloth coverings for tables and in 1854 
he went to Madison. Wisconsin, where he and his brother went into the hotel 
business. In 185 7 Mr. Kraus went to St. Louis by boat and then up the 
Missouri River to Kansas City, arriving in May, 185 7. He engaged in a general 
mercantile business. One of his stores, located in Shawnee, was destroyed by 
hre in 1863 and in that year Mr. Kraus went to Fort Scott and Fort Smith, 
returned to Kansas City in 1866 and established himself on the Clay County 
side of the river. In 1 87 I Mr. Kraus bought several pieces of property in 
Kansas City, which today are of great value. 

In 1872 Mr. Kraus married Katherine Klamm, who died in 1876. One 
daughter died in infancy and a son, John P.. is now a resident of Kansas City 
and assists his father in the management of his interests. 



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W. WALLACE GREENE 

State Senator from the Seventh District and a Prominent Attorney 
of Kansas City, Missouri. 




WALLACE GREENE, associated with the law firm of Cook 
& Goscett, and state senator from the Seventh District of Mis- 
souri, was born in Jackson County, Missouri, October 1 3, I 672, 
the son of Thaddeus W. and Eliza A. Greene. Both parents were 
natives of Kansas City, the Greene family having been pioneers in 
the county. 

After obtaining a good common school education, Mr. 
Greene decided to make law his profession and entered the Kansas City 
School of Law, from which he was graduated in I 900. July 23. 1 903, he 
married Miss Edna L. Coleman. They have one child. 

Being a man of sterling qualities, a native of the county, and known by 
almost every old family in it. Mr. Greene was made the candidate of the 
Democratic parly for state senator from the Seventh District in the campaign 
of 1908. He was elected by a fine majority and his record in the state 
senate has been such that the judgment of the voters ha3 been fully vindicated. 



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EDWIN OTIS MOFFATT 

President Moffatt Commission Company, one of the best known Grain 
Firms in the Southwest. 




DWIN OTIS MOFFATT, president of the Moffatt Commission 
Company, was born in LaSalle, Illinois, November 12, 1854, the 
son of Edwin R. and Mary O. (Williams) MofTatt. The Moffatt 
family in America began w^hen three brothers arrived from 
Scotland on the Mayflow^er. The subject of this sketch is a 
direct descendant of one of those brothers. His father and mother 
w^ere natives of New York. 
Mr. Moffatt completed the grade schools and lacked one year of finishing 
the high school course, most of his schooling being obtained in Freeport, Illi- 
nois. October 3, 1883, he married Mary C. Johnston in Freeport. They have 
three children, a son living at home, a daughter married and living in Japan, 
and a daughter now in Germany, studying music. 

From 1870 to 1879, Mr. Moffatt was employed in railroad offices in 
Chicago. In the latter year he v^^ent into the wholesale coffee and spice 
business in Kanras City. While in the coffee and spice business at Second and 
Main streets, under the firm name of Smith & Moffatt in 1886, the building 
was blown down. Mr. Smith was killed and Mr. Moffatt narrowly escaped 
death. T. G. Beaham took Mr. Smith's place in the firm after the tragedy. 
In 1 890, Mr. Moffatt went into the grain business and the Moffatt Commis- 
sion Company is now one of the best known firms in the southwest. 

Mr. Moffatt is a member of the Board of Trade in several cities and a 
member of the principal clubs in Kansas City. 



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President of the Irving-Pitt Manufacturing Company and 
the Irving-Pitt Realty Company. 

!])UN1US B. IRVING, whose connections with the manufacturing inter- 
ests of the Southwest have made him one of the most prominent 
men in Kansas City, was born in Ithaca, New York, June 7, 1870. 
the son of John and Lydia Irving, of Scotch-English ancestry. 

Mr. Irving received his education in New York and engaged 
in a general book binding business prior to his coming to Kansas 
City. In 1901 he came West and decided that Kansas City offered 
him a promisiiig, u^i^. m i Vo4 the Irving-Pitt Manufacturing Company was 
organized and today it is one of the largest concerns of its kind in the South- 
west, occupying a beautiful building of its own. The company makes all 
kinds of loose leaf books and office devices. Besides being president and 
actively engaged in the management of this business, Mr. Irving is also 
president of the Irving-Pitt Realty Company. 

In June, 1893, Mr. Irving married Anna Murphy of Chicago, Illinois. 
He is a Mason and a Shriner, a member of the Elks lodge, belongs to the 
Kansas City Automobile Club, the Chicago Athletic Club, the Rotary Club 
and as a member of the Commercial Club has played a prominent part in 
many of the recent campaigns to boost Kansas City as a commercial center. 



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CHARLES J. SCHMELZER 

President and Treasurer of the Schmelzer Anns Company and One 
of Kansas City's Foremost Citizens. 




HARLES J. SCHMELZER was born in Hartford, Connecticut. 
July 23, 1656. His father, John F. Schmelzer, a native of Olden- 
burg, Germany, came to America in I b44 and settled in Hart- 
ford, Connecticut, where he was associated with the Colts 
Armory until he came west in 185 7. In that year he went to 
Leavenworth, Kansas, and began the business which is nov/ con- 
ducted by the Schmelzer Arms Company. The mother of 
Charles J., before her marriage, was Matilda Horst, a native of Osterbruck, 
Germany. 

Charles J. Schmelzer spent his boyhood days in Leavenworth, where he 
attended the public schools, becoming associated with his father's business 
at the age of sixteen years. When he was twenty-five years old his father 
admitted him to partnership, and upon his father s retirement from business 
in 1887, when the firm moved to Kansas City, the son became the executive 
head of the establishment. In I 896 the business was incorporated as the 
j. F. Schmelzer & Sons Arms Company, with a capital of $75,000. In 1907 
this was increased to $300,000. In the half century of its existence the con- 
cern has grown from a small gun shop to one of the largest exclusive sport- 
ing goods houses in the w^orld. 

January I 2, 1 887. Mr. Schmelzer married Miss Alice ide, daughter of 
Judge H. W. Ide, of Leavenworth. They have a son, Harvey J., and a 
daughter, Alice. 

Mr. Schmelzer is a prominent member of the Commercial Club and has 
been one of the real boosters for Kansas City for more than a generation. 
He belongs to the Kansas City Athletic Club, Evanston Golf Club, Horton 
Gun Club, Minnesouri Angling Club, and there has been no movement in 
which the city has been interested in which Mr. Schmelzer has not I^een 
conspicuous. He is a truly representative example of the living, breathing 
"Kansas City Spirit." 



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J. FRANK MARTIN 

Manager of the Buick Motor Company's Kansas City Branch and a Recognized 
Authority on Automobiles. 




FRANK MARTIN, well known automobile man and Kansas Ci y 
manager for the Buick Motor Company, was born in New York 
City, August I, 1870, the son of George C. and Josephine B. 
Martin. His father was a native of New York City and his 
mother was born in Newburgh, New York. 

After finishing the common schools, Mr. Martin spent three 
years in Columbia University in New York City studying engineer- 
ing. He then came west, where he has been associated with the automobile 
industry for several years. His ability as an executive officer and his knowl- 
edge of the motor car industry brought him quick recognition in the Southwest 
and he was recently placed at the head of the Buick Motor Company's Kansas 
City branch, one of the oldest automobile houses in this part of the country 
and one doing an enormous business. 

February 8, 1899, Mr. Martin married Pearl Sprague of Olathe, Kansas. 



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FERNANDO P. NEAL 

President Southwest National Bank of Kansas City and 
Former Member of Park Board. 




ERNANDO P. NEAL. a banker known throughout the Southwest, 
president of the Southwest National Bank, one of the strongest 
financial institutions in the state, was born at Knoxville, Iowa, 
May 12. 1855. the son of J. E.. and Catherine Neai. His father 
was born in New York state and his mother in Ohio. 

Following his common school education, Mr. Neal attended 
William Jewell College. January 27, 1880, he married Ida D. 
Adkins. They have three children. 

Mr. Neal became directly associated with the financial history of Kansas 
City in 1888 on his arrival here. The following year he w^as made vice-presi- 
dent of the Union National Bank and continued with that institution until it 
ceased to exist in 1908. In that year the Southw^est National, now ha^'ing 
a capital and surplus of $1,200,000, was organized with Mr. Neal as the ex- 
ecutive head. From the very first it has been a great success. 

In politics Mr. Neal is independent. A conservative financier, he has 
always been interested in seeing Kansas City make a steady and solid, rather 
than a boom, progress and he has taken a keen interest in all the recent 
campaigns for municipal improvement. Mr. Neal is a member of the Kansas 
City Club, the Mid-Day Club and the Evanston Golf Club. 



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SAM SPARROW 

Member Law Firm of Conkling, Rea & Sparrow, and a Prominent 
Democratic Leader in Jackson County. 




AM SPARROW, of the law firm of Conkling, Rea & Sparrow, a 
prominent Democratic leader in Kansas City, but never a candi- 
date for political favors, was born in Jamesport, Missouri, Octo- 
ber I, 1870, son of Thomas J. and Elizabeth J. Sparrow. His 
father was a native of Shelby County, Missouri, and his mother 
w^as born in Daviess County, Missouri. 

After obtaining a common school education, Mr. Sparrow 
entered the law department of Missouri University, from which he was gradu- 
ated in 1893. He came then to Kansas City and began practice, meeting with 
remarkable success from the first, and today the firm of which he is a member 
is one of the most substantial in the state. 

October 21, 1 896, Mr. Sparrow married Miss Russie E. Kissinger. 
A strong Democrat, Mr. Sparrow has rendered efficient service to his 
party and the public. He is a member of the Elks Lodge and also belongs 
to the Knights of Pythias. 



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FREDERICK A. WOLF 

Hat Manufacturer; Proprietor of One of the Most Prosperous 
Young Businesses in Kansas City. 




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REDERICK A. WOLF, hat manufacturer, was born in Germany 
March I I. 1869, son of Frederick W. and Maria W. Wolf. After 
obtaining a public school education he came to America and 
learned the hat making trade. 

March I, 1907. Mr. Wolf started in the hat manufacturing 
and repairing business at 721 Walnut street, doing all the work 
in his factory himself. He now employs a considerable force 
business is one ot^ the most successful in the city. 

Wolf is a member of the Moose, Independent Order of Foresters, 
Woodmen of America, and National Union. March 26, 1890, he 
Sophia M. Seitz of Cleveland, Ohio. They have one daughter. 



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GEORGE ALBERT BOND 

Prominent in the Automobile Industry of Kansas City. 
President of the Bond Motor Company. 




^EORGE ALBERT BOND, president of the Bond Motor Company, 
one of the oldest and most successful automobile institutions in 
Kansas City, was born in Illinois, July 21, 1868. His father. 
James Bond, and his mother, Mary E. Bond, were both natives 
of Illinois. 

The success of the institution of which Mr. Bond is the 
head reflects his business ability. Politically he is a Republican 
and although he has never held office, he is none the less actively interested 
in civic progress. 

Mr. Bond married Miss Emma J. Antoni, July 7, I 898. Two children, 
a daughter and a son, have been born to them. 

Mr. Bond was reared and educated at Hannibal, Missouri, coming to 
Kansas City in 1886. He is a member of the Commercial Club, the Kansas 
City Club, the Elm Ridge Golf Club, the Automobile Club and is a Mason 
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W. B. ROBERTS 

General Manager Kansas City Branch of the 
W. W. Kimball Piano Company. 




B. ROBERTS, a pioneer in commercial Kansas City, was born July 
23. 1848, on a farm in Kendall County, Illinois. At the age of 
fourteen he went to Chicago to shift for himself. Standing in 
front of Reed's Temple of Music on Dearborn street one day, he 
was watching workmen remove a large plate glass. The young 
spectator thought the big glass was about to fall and he jumped 
in to assist the men, his action attracting the attention of Mr. 
Reed, who gave him a job immediately, notwithstanding his youth. From 
that day he became a fixture with the Reed concern and remained so until 
its failure in 1879, when he accepted a position of responsibility with the 
W. W. Kimball house. 

In 1882 Mr. Roberts was sent to Kansas City to manage the Kimball 
Company's local branch. His first location was on Main street between 
Seventh and Eighth streets. After nine years of increased business it became 
necessary to hunt more commodious quarters and Mr. Roberts moved to 
Walnut street between Ninth and Tenth streets, where he remained until the 
disastrous fire of 1905. Prior to the fire he was contemplating moving again 
into larger quarters and when he found his old quarters in ashes with char- 
acteristic promptness he selected his present location at 1009-1 I Grand avenue. 
While building a great business Mr. Roberts has not neglected his duty 
to friends and city and today he is one of the most liberal-minded boosters 
Kansas City has. He is a member of the Kansas City Club and the Kansas 
City Athletic Club and is one of the oldest members of the local Elks* Lodge. 
In 1878 Mr. Roberts married Miss Cella 1. Taylor. They have two 
sons, W. B.. Jr., and Taylor. The Roberts home in Mellier Place is one of 
the handsomest in the city. 



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ALBERT DIX FLINTOM 

Branch Manager of the General Film Company and a 
Large Operator in Leases. 




LBERT DIX FLINTOM, manager of the Kansas City and St. Louis 
branches of the General Film Company, president of the Kansas 
City Leasehold & Improvement Company, president of the 
Twelfth Street Leasehold Ac Improvement Company, and a 
director of the Mercantile Bank, came to Kansas City from 
Lawrence, Kansas, in 1900. 

Mr. Flintom was born in Lawrence, Kansas, December 10, 
1872. His father, W. J. Flintom, was a native of Vermont, and his mother, 
Jetta Graham Flintom, came to America from Ireland. 

Kansas City first called Mr. Flintom through the medium of a little 
"want ad" published by the National Bank of Commerce, which institution 
was in search of a bank clerk. He had been a teller in the Lawrence National 
Bank. Prior to that he had been employed on the Lawrence Daily Journal 
at wages ranging from $1.25 a week to $9.00 a week. 

At the end of seven years he resigned from the management of the 
bookkeeping department of the National Bank of Commerce, where he had 
two hundred and fifty men working under him and was receiving $2,500 a 
year. He invested his savings in the Yale Amusement Company which had 
long attracted him. In the meanwhile he had bought up options on Broadway 
property, through which he realized $4,500 in one month. Eventually he 
bought most of the stock of the amusement company in which he was inter- 
ested and managed the business at a salary of $4,500. He later organized 
a film exchange in Kansas City which was sold to the General Film Company 
of New York about a year ago at an enormous profit. He was appointed to 
the manaeement of the Kansas City and St. Louis branches. 

Mr. Flintom married Miss Ned Jaynes in November. 1906. They have 
one child, a son, Lathrop B. Flintom. Mr. Flintom is a Republican. 



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GRANVILLE M. SMITH 

President of the Commonwealth National Bank and Keenly Interested 
in All Municipal Improvement Matters. 




RANVILLE M. SMITH, one of the prominent bankers of the 
Southwest, president of the Commonwealth National Bank, was 
born in Adams County. Ohio, December 1 0, I 860, the son of 
Samuel M. and Amanda J. Smith, who were both natives of 
Ohio. After completing the common schools Mr. Smith attended 
Cornell College at Mount Vernon, Iowa. 

Going into the general banking business, Mr. Smith finally 
located in Kansas City in 1898. He was associated with the National Reserve 
Bank and the Central National Bank for a time, and in 1911 when the Com- 
monw^ealth National Bank was established he w^as made president of the organ- 
ization, which from the first has taken a place in the first rank of banking 
institutions of the Southwest. 

March 2, 1885, Mr. Smith married Annie B. Pinnell. They have one 
daughter. Marguerite, and three sons, Granville M., Jr., Niel, and George. 

Mr. Smith is a Republican, member of the Kansas City Club and the 
Knife and Fork Club and takes a keen interest in all municipal improvements. 



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STEPHEN HENRY VELIE 

One of the Most Prominent Implement Men in the United States; 
An Officer in the Deere Company. 




TEPHEN HENRY VELIE. known the world over as one of the 
master minds behind the gigantic John Deere Implement busi- 
ness, an executive officer in six great manufacturing concerns 
and a director of a very successful bank, was born in Prince- 
ton, Illinois, October 20, 1862, the son of Stephen Henry Velie 
and Emma Deere Velie. John Deere, father of Mr. Velie's 
mother, in a very literal sense revolutionized agricultural methods 
the world over, being the inventor of the steel plow and the founder of the 
Deere Company, which now n^anufactures farming implements, wagons, etc., 
which are sold everywhere. 

Mr. Velie, with only that education which he was able to obtain in com- 
mon schools and the university of experience, is today one of the most refined 
and sagacious business men in the United States. He has mastered every 
phase of the implement business. A Republican, politically^ he has never 
sought office but has always taken a loyal citizen's interest in municipal, state 
and national affairs. 

July 6, 1884, Mr. Velie married Emma Ainsworth. They have one son, 
Thomas A. Velie. Following are the executive offices held by Mr. Velie: 
Vice-president Velie Motor Vehicle Company, Moline, Illinois; president V .^lie 
Saddlery Company, Kansas City, Missouri; president Fort Smith Wagon Com- 
pany, Fort Smith, Arkansas; secretary and manager John Deere Plow Com- 
pany, Kansas City, Missouri; vice-president Velie Carriage Company, Moline, 
Illinois: vice-president Marseilles Manufacturing Company, East Moline, Illi- 
nois; director Southwest National Bank, Kansas City, Missouri. 



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CHARLES H. BOOB 

Secretary Kansas City Sash and Door Company, one of the 
Largest in the Central West. 




HARLES H. BOOB, secretary of the Kansas City Sash and Door 
Company, was born December 5, 1856, in Miflflenburg, Union 
County, Pennsylvania, the son of Joseph and Mary Boob, who 
were also natives of Pennsylvania. 

After obtaining the usual common school education, upon 
his father's death, Mr. Boob went to Kansas and continued the 
general contracting business which his father had established. 
In 1880 he moved to Kansas City and became connected with Lovejoy Planing 
Mill. He remained eighteen years with that company and mastered the busi- 
ness down to the last detail. In 1902 he became interested in the Kansas City 
Sash and Door Company, of which he is now secretary. 

December 28, 1882, Mr. Boob married Addie F. Wilson. They have one 
daughter. Mr. Boob is a man who has made his own success, and his industry 
and sterling business integrity command the respect of his business associates 
and an extensive patronage. The Kansas City Sash and Door Company is one 
of the largest firms of its kind in the Central West, and is one of the prominent 
commercial interests of the city. 

Mr. Boob is a member of the Masons and the Modern Woodmen. 



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Republican Member Upper House of City Council; President of the 
Edwards & Sloane Jewelry Company. 




EORGE H. EDWARDS, member of the upper house of the city 
council and president of the Edwards & Sloane Jewelry Company 
and the Mercantile Bank, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, May 
25, I860, the son of Richard and Betsy J. Edwards. His father 
was well known throughout Illinois, having served as president 
of the State Normal University and later as state superintendent 
of public instruction. He was the author of the Illinois Compul- 
sory Education Law. 

After having spent several years traveling for Chicago and New York 
jewelry houses, Mr. Edwards came to Kansas City in 1 888 and went into 
business for himself, in which he has met with remarkable success. He 
early took an interest in politics and became a prominent member of the 
Republican party's counsel. He is now serving his second term as an upper 
house alderman. 

In 1889 Mr. Edwards married Miss Belle Dix of Lawrence, Kansas. They 
have two sons and four daughters. 

Besides taking care of his many personal interests, Mr. Edwards has 
always found time to take a prominent part in all municipal improvement 
campaigns and has stood for "business administration" and a "square deal" 
in the city government. 



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iPresident W. L. Grush Produce & Commission Company, One of the 
Largest Commission Houses in Kansas City. 




ALTER L. GRUSH, president of the W. L. Grush Produce & Com- 
mission Company, was born in Springfield, Illinois, September 22, 
1867, the son of Martin Luther and Elizabeth Grush, who were 
both natives of Maryland. 

Mr. Crush's extraordinary success has been of the kind 
which we are pleased to designate as "self-made." In 1887 he 
w^ent into the produce commission business in a small way. For 
one year he was located in Topeka, Kansas. Then he moved to Kansas City, 
where the enterprise has been enlarged and built up until today the W. L. 
Grush Produce & Commission Company is one of the largest concerns of its 
kind in the Southwest. Before going to Topeka, Mr. Crush lived in Howard 
County, Missouri. 

March 21, 1896, Mr. Grush married Miss Neva May. 

Mr. Grush is a director of the Mercantile Bank of Kansas City and a man 
who takes a keen interest in the commercial w^elfare of the city. 
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JOHN P. PRESCOTT 

Civil Engineer; President of the Terminal Warehouse Company and 
Interested in Several Manufacturing Concerns. 



^^^^OHN P. PRESCOTT. president of the Terminal Warehouse Com- 
^^/i/v] ^ pany, was born February 4, 1859, in Spirit Lake. Iowa, the son 
of John S. and Mary Harris Prescott. His father was a native 
of New^ York and his mother was born in Delaware. His 
ancestors came from England in 1640 and settled in Massa- 
chusetts, near Boston. 

After finishing his school work, Mr. Prescott became en- 
gaged in the construction business, and from 1878 to 1898 he handled a large 
amount of railroad construction in the West, Mexico and Central America. 
In 1898 he came to Kansas City and became associated with the Terminal 
Warehouse Company, of w^hich he is president. He is also interested in several 
manufacturing concerns, one of them doing an extensive business in artificial 
limbs. 

December 20, 1892, Mr. Prescott married Martha Anderson. A Republi- 
can in politics, Mr. Prescott is a man alive to the interests of the city and 
has always shown a willingness to go to the front for any project which is for 
the betterment of financial or industrial conditions. 



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President Kansas City, Missouri, Gas Company and Wyandotte County, 
Kansas, Gas Company. 




RNEST LOW BRUNDRETT. president of the Kansas City, Mis- 
souri. Gas Company and the Wyandotte County, Kansas, Gas 
Company, was born in Manchester, England. February 18, 1861. 
the son of Elisha and Margaret Ann (Malcolm) Brundrett. His 
father was a native of Manchester and his mother was born 'n 
Dundee. Scotland. 

Mr. Brundrett was graduated in 1877 from the Manchester 
Grammar school and prepared himself for the profession of an accountant. 

In 1886 he came to the United States and directly to Kansas City. Since 
1888 he has been associated w^ith the interests w^hich have furnished the two 
Kansas Citys with gas. Being a man of executive ability, he at once took 
a prominent place in the management and w^as rapidly promoted. 

Mr. Brundrett married Mabel Constance Barningham. of Bowden, Cheshire 
County. England, February 17, 1909. They have one son. 

In politics, Mr. Brundrett is an Independent. He has always been a fine 
friend to the newspaper writers and, although one of the busiest men in Kansas 
City, is democratic and easily approached. He is one of the first associate 
members of the Kansas City Press Club. 



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CHARLES COE BREYFOGLE 

Successful Real Estate Dealer and Secretary of the 
Deatherage Lumber Company. 




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HARLES COE BREYFOGLE, one of Kansas City's successful real 
estate dealers and secretary of the Deatherage Lumber Company, 
is another contribution of Kansas to Kansas City progress. He 
was born near Lenexa, Kansas, January 3, 1869. His father, 
Lewis W. Breyfogle, was a native Ohioan, having been born near 
Columbus, and his mother, Laura A. Breyfogle, was born at 
Valparaiso, Indiana. 
Mr. Breyfogle inherited his activity in Kansas City real estate from his 
father, who was interested in real estate in and around Kansas City from 
the time he moved to Olathe, Kansas, in I860, until his death. Also, the 
elder Breyfogle was president of the First National Bank of Olathe from the 
day it was founded throughout the remainder of his life. 

Charles C. Breyfogle was a student in Baker University at Baldwin, 
Kansas, but business life drew him away from the school before he had 
graduated. He married Marian Deatherage, February 18, 1902. They have 
one child, a daughter. 

Mr. Breyfogle is a Republican, but the activity of Kansas City real estate 
has left him no time to seek public office. He came to Kansas City from 
Olathe ten years ago when his interests in and around Kansas City demanded 
his presence here. He is a member of the Masonic Lodge. 



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CHARLES C. CLEMONS 

President C. C. Clemons Produce Company; One of the Leading 
Produce Merchants of the Southwest. 




|HARLES C. CLEMONS. president of the C. C. Clemens Produce 
Company and one of the prominent produce merchants of the 
Southwest, was born in Covington, Kentucky, July 25, 1839, 
the son of Charles D. and Mary Clemons. 

For forty- four years Mr. Clemons has been a conspicuous 
figure in the commercial life of Kansas City. He came here 
from Alabama in April of 1 868 and started in the produce busi- 
ness. From the first his efforts met with success and today his company is 
doing one of the most extensive produce businesses in the Central West. He 
has been a member of the Produce Exchange since it was first organized and 
twice has served as its president. Established in 1 868, the C. C. Clemons 
Produce Company was incorporated in I 908. 

February 18, 1869, Mr. Clemons was married. He has two daughters. 
He is a member of the Commercial Club and has taken a prominent part 
in many of the campaigns for municipal improvement. Politically he is a 
Republican. 



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NUGENT J. FLYNN 

Member of the Firm of Richards & Flynn, Amusement 
Promoters and Theater Owners. 




UGENT J. FLYNN. a member of the firm of Richards & Flynn. 
owning and operating several high-class moving picture theaters 
in Kansas City, was born in Brookfield, Missouri, February I 5, 
1882, the son of William and Martha Earl Flynn. His father 
was born in Lackagh, Ireland, and his mother in Indianapolis, 
Indiana. 

After obtaining a common school education, Mr. Flynn went 
to business college and prepared himself to be a stenographer and private 
secretary, in which positions he worked for several years. Realizing that 
Kansas City was a promising field for high-class amusement enterprises, Mr. 
Flynn, with Mr. Richards, built and is operating two of the best moving 
picture houses in the city and a third is under construction. 

Mr. Flynn is a Democrat, single, and a young man of industry and 
exceptional business ability. He is a member of the Moose Lodge. 



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JOSEPH M. GOLDSMITH 

President oi the Elgin Dairy Lunch Company and a Successful 
Self-made Business Man. 




OSEPH M. GOLDSMITH, president of the Elgin Dairy Lunch 
Company and interested in several other commercial ventures 
in Kansas City, was born in Rochester, Indiana, March 29, 1678, 
the son of David and Jennie Goldsmith, both natives of Germany. 
Mr. Goldsmith is one of the few successful men in Kansas 
City who had to fight for everything they obtained in the way 
of education. Starting early in life to shift for himself, he went 
to Chicago, where for several years he was a newsboy. Successful in various 
minor mercantile undertakings, he came to Kansas City in 1900 and was 
immediately employed by Jones Brothers, who w^ere then building up a great 
department store business. For seven years Mr. Goldsmith remained w^ith 
that firm until repeated promotions had placed him in one of the most impor- 
tant executive positions in the organization. 

In 1907, Mr. Goldsmith decided he would enter business for himself, and 
under protest from his employers he resigned his place in the store and organ- 
ized the Elgin Dairy Lunch Company, which now operates five lunch rooms 
in Kansas City. Mr. Goldsmith made the concern a big success from the 
first month. 

By no means the least important feature about Mr. Goldsmith is his 
friendship for the new^sboys. In 1911 he gave them a Thanksgiving Day 
dinner, repeating the performance on Christmas Day of the same year. He 
is intimately acquainted with almost every newsboy in the city. He is a 
Shriner and one of the most ardent boosters of Kansas City. 



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BESTOR GASTON BROWN 

Manager of the Western Office of The M. C. Lilley & Company 
of Columbus, Ohio. 




ESTOR GASTON BROWN, manager of the Western office of The 
M. C. Lilley 6c Company of Columbus, Ohio, was born Novem- 
ber 22, 1861, at Bluflton, Wells County, Indiana, the son of 
George Summerfield and Martha Ellen (Karn) Brown. His 
paternal ancestors were Quakers of Scotch descent and were in 
fjfj Wm. Penn's colony in Pennsylvania. His maternal ancestors 
were Germans. His father was a native of Ohio and his mother 
was born in Indiana. 

Completing the public schools, Mr. Brown continued his education in 
the University of Michigan and later in Cornell University. For a time he 
followed the newspaper profession, being city editor of the Topeka Common- 
wealth, dramatic and sporting editor of the Topeka Capital, and a special 
correspondent for papers in other cities. December 7, 1884, he married 
Emma Jane Kellam of Topeka, Kansas. One daughter, Helen May Brown, 
was born to them, the happy union being broken three years after the mar- 
riage by the death of Mrs. Brown. 

Besides building a very successful business career, Mr. Brown has found 
time to make himself, as Thomas E. Dewey said in his biographical sketch, "the 
most accomplished as well as the most distinguished Mason" in Kansas, where 
he was for years the leader of all things Masonic. Mr. Brown has been 
through all the degrees of Ancient Craft Masonry, Capitular Masonry, Cryptic 
Masonry, Christian Knighthood, Red Cross of Constantine, and the Ancient 
and Accepted Scottish Rite, the most of his work having been received in 
Topeka. From the very beginning of his residence here Mr. Brown took a 
conspicuous place in commercial Kansas City. Once a newspaper man, 
always one, Mr. Brown is looked upon as a member of the profession by 
the newspaper men of Kansas and Missouri. 



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WILLIAM THOMAS BLAND 

President of the McPike Drug Company, and for Years Conspicuous in 
Kansas City's Commercial History. 




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ILLIAM THOMAS BLAND, president of the McPike Drug Com- 
pany, was born in Weston, West Virginia, in 1661, the son of 
William John and Columbia Madison (Jackson) Bland. Both 
parents were native Virginians. 

Mr. Bland was graduated from the University of West Vir- 
ginia in 1883, and from the !aw^ department in 1884. He 
moved to Atchison, Kansas, in 1887 and was elected county 

1890 on the Democratic ticket, mayor of Atchison in 1893, judge 



of the Second judicial district in 1895 and re-elected in 1899. He resigned 
in 1902 to become vice-president of the McPike Drug Company, which in 
1904 was removed to Kansas City. He became president in February, 1911. 
In 1907 he was elected president of the Manufacturers and Merchants' Asso- 
ciation and when, in 1909, it, with the Commercial Club and the Business 
Men's League, amalgamated under the name of the Commercial Club, he was 
made president of the new^ organization. During his administration $1,250,000 
was raised by public subscription to build boats to navigate the Missouri River, 
the controversy between the railroads and the two Kansas Citys relative to 
obstructions in the Kaw River, aggravating local flood situations, was settled 
and the work of the Kaw River Drainage Commission was permitted to 
proceed. 

At the April, 1912, election Judge Bland was chosen a member of the 
School Board. He is a director of the Commerce Trust Company and the 
Kansas City Missouri River Navigation Company and is a member of the 
Board of Governors of the Lakes- to- 1 he-Gulf Deep Waterw^ays Association. 
He has been repeatedly urged to make the race for mayor of Kansas City and 
also for Congress, but has declined. He is a member of the Sons of the 
Revolution. 

In 1891 Judge Bland married Bertha H. McPike. They have one son. 
William Thomas, Jr. 



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WILLIAM B. HILL 

President Ash Grove Lime and Portland Cement Company, 
One of the Largest in the Country. 




ILLIAM B. HILL, president of the Ash Grove Lime and Portland 
Cement Company, was born in Pleasant Hill, Miami Counly, 
Ohio, October 8, 1854, the son of Thomas and Mary A. hiill. 
As Mr. Hill expresses it, his education for the most part 
was received in "Clod-Hopper College. " The success to which 
Mr. Hill has attained is evidence that in whatever college he 
studied he got all that was to be learned. For a time he was in 
the grain and live stock business, making his headquarters in Carthage, Mis- 
souri. In 1886 he came to Kansas City and became associated with the 
Portland cement interests, now being president of the Ash Grove company, 
manufacturing lime and Portland cement, and one of the largest concerns 
of its kind in the United States. 

In 1885 Mr. Hill married Fannie Harding. In politics Mr. Hill is a 
Repubhcan. He ia a man who is proud of the city and state and has always 
been ready to do what he could to advance the interest of Kansas City. He 
is a member of the Masons, a director of the Mid-Day Club, belongs to the 
Evanston Golf Club, the Kansas City Athletic Club and the Railroad Club. 



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CHARLES A. BERGFELDT 

One of the Leading Tailors in Kansas City, President of the 
Bergfeldt-Roueche Tailoring Company. 



HARLES A. BERGFELDT. president of the Bergfeldt-Roueche Tail- 
oring Company and one of the leading tailors in Kansas City, was 
born in Stockholm, Sweden. January 3 1, 1866. the son of Alfred 
and Emily S. Bergfeldt, both natives of Sweden. 
.^^\, .v> ^ Coming to America, Mr. Bergfeldt went into the tailoring 

;-^^si:^^riJ business and finally located in Kansas City where he has built 
up one of the most extensive patronages enjoyed by any tailoring 
firm in the Southwest. Many of the best dressed men of Missouri. Kansas 
and Oklahoma keep standing orders with Mr. Bergfeldts house. 

June 29, 1892, Mr. Bergfeldt married Hannah G. Erickson. They have 
a daughter. Mildred, and a son, W. Harold. 




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EDWARD WINSTANLEY 

Chief Deputy County Clerk of Jackson County and Noted Throughout 
Missouri as a Democratic Party Worker. 

JDWARD WINSTANLEY, for years one of the best known workers 
in the Democratic party and now chief deputy county clerk for 
Jackson County, was born in London, England, in 1850, the son 
of Edward Newnam and Helen Glanville Winstanley. 

Mr. Winstanley was educated in Nutgrove College, Dublin, 
Ireland. He came to the United States when sixteen years old 
and to Kansas City thirty-five years ago. In I 879 he married 
Sallie E. Dunne of Independence, Missouri. They have four children. 

For many years Mr. Winstanley has rendered valuable service to both 
the county and city. He has served as superintendent of the county court 
house, purchasing agent for the city and deputy probate clerk for the county. 
He has always been a splendid friend to the newspaper writers of the state 
who have come in contact with him almost daily for the last decade. 
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Prominent in Financial Circles of the Southwest and President of 
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ENRY LEE JARBOE, JR., president of the Drovers National Bank 
of Kansas City, was born in Burlington, Kansas, July 21, 1675, 
the son of Henry Lee and Addie Jarboe. His father was born in 
Missouri and his mother in Illinois. 

Born and reared on a farm in Coffey County, Kansas, Mr. 
Jarboe moved to Marlow, Indian Territory, in January, 1893. 
and organized the Bank of Marlow, acting as cashier until 
of his interest in 190L He then went to Chickasha, Indian 
Territory, as a junior member of the Gilkey-Jarboe Hardware Company, a 
wholesale and retail firm of which he was secretary and treasurer for several 
years. He organized the Chickasha Trust Company in 1901, which was 
absorbed by the Oklahoma State Bank of Chickasha, of which institution he 
was president until it was absorbed by the Oklahoma National Bank, of which 
also he was president. In 1910 Mr. Jarboe moved to St. Louis, where he 
became vice-president of the National Stock Yards National Bank, National 
Stock Yards, Illinois. He resigned that position in January, 1911, to accept 
the presidency of the Drovers' National Bank of Kansas City, Missouri. 

April 24, 1901, Mr. Jarboe married Pearle Haight, of Burlington, Kan- 
sas. They have three children, Thomas Wade, Lillian and Henry Lee, III. 
Politically Mr. Jarboe is a Republican. He belongs to the Masonic 
orders up to and including the Knights Templar; is a member of Ararat 
Temple, Ancient Order of the Mystic Shrine; is an Elk and a member of the 
Evanston Golf Club and the Kansas City Athletic Club. 



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PRESTON K. DILLENBECK 

Founder and President of the Dillenbeck School of Oratory, 
Kansas City, Missouri. 



■p=^v71 RESTON K. DILLENBECK. one of the prominent instructors of 
1- -A J. ' oratory in the West, founder and president of the Dillenbeck 
School of Oratory of Kansas City, was born in Canajoharie, 
New York. March 20, 1859. the son of William H. and Tenette 
Dillenbeck. His ancestors were of Dutch extraction and were 
pioneers in the Mohawk Valley of New York. 

After attending the public schools, Professor Dillenbeck 
attended the Fort Plain Collegiate Institute where he made a specialty of 
oratory and public speaking. He came West and took a position with the 
Fulton and Trueblood School of Oratory from which place he was called to 
Kentucky University at Lexington, Kentucky, where for four years he occu- 
pied the chair of oratory and public speaking. He resigned from the faculty 
there, to come to Kansas City and establish the school of oratory which bears 
his name and which for nineteen years has been one of the leading schools 
of its kind in the Central West. 

In 1892, Professor Dillenbeck married Miss Liliie L. Lash of Linneus, 
Missouri. They have two children Catherine and Jocelyn. Professor Dillen- 
beck is a Mason and in politics is a Republican. His school in Kansas City 
has always maintained a high standard and among its graduates are numbered 
several who are now stars in the dramatic world. 



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B. HOWARD SMITH 

President of the Consumers' Bread Company, Largest Bread and 
Baking Company in Kansas City. 




HOWARD SMITH, president of Kansas City's largest bread and 
baking concern, the Consumers' Bread Company, was born in 
Scott County, Indiana, the son of H. S. and Lucy Smith, who 
were natives of Ohio. 

Mr. Smith had the privilege of attending only the public 
schools. The knowledge and principles which have made him 
one of the prominent men in commercial Kansas City he obtained 
from the big university of experience. Having been in the bakery business 
for some time in various locations. Mr. Smith came to Kansas City in 1885 
and engaged in the business which finally became known as the Consumers' 
Bread Company, of which he is the head and chief stockholder. 

In 1870 Mr. Smith married Mary E. Stillie of Ohio. They have four 
rons and a daughter. Mr. Smith is a member of the Elks Lodge and politically 
is a Democrat. 



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WARREN NOBLE GROFF 

Prominent Attorney and a Member of the Forty-fourth 
General Assembly of Missouri. 




^ARREN NOBLE GROFF, attorney and member of the Forty-fourth 

General Assembly of Missouri, was born in Tiffin, Ohio, April 

23, 1874, son of Silas Wright and Mary Ellen (Noble) Groff. 

His grandfather, Warren P. Noble, was in Congress from Ohio 

during Lincoln's administration and was president of the first 

board of trustees of Ohio State University. Mr. Groff's father 

and mother were both born in Tiffin, Ohio. 

After completing the common school course, Mr. Groff entered Notre 

Dame University, where he studied from 1892 to 1894, then entered Ohio 

State University, from which he was graduated, B.A. in I 896, and LL.B. in 

1899. 

Coming to Kansas City in 1901, Mr. Groff began practicing law and 
has built up an extensive and successful business. Being a Democ-a; of 
progressive views, when made the candidate of his party he was easily elected 
a member of the Forty-fourth General Assembly of Missouri and served with 
much credit to himself and satisfaction to his party. 

Mr. Groff is a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity, Kansas City Club, 
University Club, Railroad Club and the Knife and Fork Club. 



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JOHN HOWARD KITCHEN 

Member of the Firm of Lewis Sl Kitchen and One of Kansas City's 
Most Progressive Men. 




OHN HOWARD KITCHEN, one of the first men to subscribe to 
the million-dollar fund for the Missouri River Navigation Com- 
pany and a man who has taken a great interest in industrial 
work in Kansas City, was born in Easton, Pennsylvania, April 4, 
1870, son of Francis Andrew and Anna Margaret Kitchen. Both 
parents w^ere born in Pennsylvania, of Quaker stock, and of 
ancestors who played an important part in the Revolutionary 
War. Mr. Kitchen's father was an officer in the One Hundred Seventy-fourth 
Pennsylvania regiment during the Civil War. 

The firm of Lewis & Kitchen, dealers in ventilating and heating fixtures, 
was organized in 1693 and subsequently branch offices were established in 
Chicago. Both members of the firm are engineers and contractors and are 
interested in a manufacturing plant of sheet metal novelties. 

Mr. Kitchen has found time, in building up an extensive and successful 
business, to give the city a great deal of valuable service. He is a member 
of the examining board of civil service ; he w^as one of the first to respond 
with financial aid when the project of reviving navigation on the Missouri 
was brought up; he is a director of the Juvenile Hotel Association and was 
a member of the building committee which erected the Boys* Hotel; he was 
for four years a trustee of the First Congregational Church and he is a man 
who in an extraordinary degree lives up to the principles of the brotherhood 
of man. 

Mr. Kitchen was educated in the manual training course of Toledo Uni- 
versity. In 1890 he married Mabel C. Lewis, in Ottawa, Illinois. They have 
two sons and a daughter. Mr. Kitchen is a member of the Commercial. 
Evanston. Elm Ridge Golf. Knife and Fork and Engineers* Clubs and the 
.Sons of the American Revolution. 



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HERMAN G. CHERRY 

President and General Manager of the Stock Yards Cotton 
& Linseed Meal Company. 




ERMAN G. CHERRY, president of the Stock Yards Cotton & 
Linseed Meal Company, was born May I 7, I 864, in Carthage, 
Illinois, the son of John W. and Purlina E. Cherry. His father 
was born in Overton County, Tennessee, and his mother in 
Hopkinsville. Kentucky. 

After finishing his school education Mr. Cherry became 
interested in hve stock, locating finally at Adrian. Missouri, 
where he built up an extensive business. From Adrian he came to Kansas 
City in 1897 and went into the grain and feed business. In May. 1908, the 
Stock Yards Cotton & Linseed Meal Company was organized, with Mr. Cherry 
as president and general manager. It is now one of the largest concerns of 
its kind in the United States. The firm is a member of the Interstate Cotton 
Seed Crushers* Association, National Expellers' Cotton Seed Crushers' Asso- 
ciation and the National Alfalfa Millers' Association. 

Mr. Cherry is married, is a member of the Democratic party and belongs 
to the Knights of Pythias and the Hoof and Horn Club. 



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THOMAS MORLEDGE 

Engaged in the Wholesale and Retail Fish and Oyster 
Business in Kansas City Since 1879. 



HOMAS MORLEDGE. in the wholesale and retail fish and oyster 
business for thirty-three years and proprietor of the well known 
Morledge Restaurant, was born in London, England, the son of 
Joseph and Elizabeth Morledge. 

Coming to Kansas City in 1879, Mr. Morledge engaged in 
the fish and oyster business and has built up an extensive whole- 
sale and retail trade in that line. Eighteen years ago he opened 
an exclusive fish and oyster restaurant which is the finest thing of its kind 
in the city. 

Mr. Morledge is a Democrat, but takes no active part in politics, giving 
all his energy to his business. 



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JACQUE G. L. HARVEY 

Counselor for Jackson County, Missouri, and a Prominent Attorney in 

Kansas City. 




ACQUE G. L. HARVEY, present county counselor for Jackson 
County and one of the prominent young attorneys in Kansas 
City, was born in Saline County, Missouri, January 26, 1875, 
the son of Jacque G. L. and Virginia Harriss Harvey, both 
natives of Saline County, Missouri. Mr. Harvey's four grand- 
parents were natives of Virginia and were among the pioneers 
who opened Missouri to settlement. His paternal grandfather 
was speaker of the Missouri house of representatives in 1840. Mr. Harvey's 
father was a Confederate soldier. 

Having obtained a common school education, reinforced by extensive 
reading, Mr. Harvey came to Kansas City in 1 890 intent on entering the 
legal profession. In 1900 he was admitted to the bar. Later he served Kan- 
sas City one year as assistant city counselor and in 1909 was appointed 
county counselor for Jackson County and reappointed a year ago. In his 
general practice he is associated with the well known firm of Reed, Yates, 
Mastin & Harvey. 

Mr. Harvey is one of the leading men in the Democratic party in Jackson 
County and has rendered valuable service in many of the recent campaigns. 
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JOHN ERHARDT MUHLFELD 

Vice-President and General Manager of the Kansas City 
Southern Railway Company. 




OHN ERHARDT MUHLFELD, one of the foremost authorities on 
railroad operation in "the United States and vice-president and 
general manager of the Kansas City Southern Railway, was born 
September 18, 1872, in Peru, Indiana, the son of John and 
Kunigunda Erhardt Muhlfeld. His father was a native of Frank- 
fort-on-the-Main, Germany, and his mother was born in Water- 
bury. Connecticut. 
Mr. Mulhfeld's early education and training was obtained in his native 
town. In 1887 he worked for a time as a clerk in a drug store at $2.00 a 
week. Later he took a job in a coal and lumber yard. This brought him 
in touch with railroad men. After a course in mechanical engineering at 
Purdue University he began field work under Ed Rice, then building the Peru 
& Detroit Railway. He worked as an engine wiper and apprentice in the 
Wabash shops at Fort Wayne and was later made pit foreman. In 1 894 
through the influence of Master Mechanic Frank W. Morse he got into road 
locomotive service. He passed rapidly from one place to the next higher, 
remaining with the Wabash until the spring of 1899. 

From 1899 to 1901 he was master mechanic western division Grand 
Trunk at Port Huron, Michigan: February to September, 1901, master 
mechanic at Montreal; September, 1901, to October, 1902, superintendent 
machinery and rolling stock Canadian Government Railroads; October, 1902, 
'o February, 1903, acsis'.ant to general superintendent motive power, Balti- 
more & Ohio; Febr-jary to June, 1903, superintendent motive power same 
road at Newark, Ohio; June, 1903, to November, 1908, general superintend- 
ent same road at Baltimore, Maryland; November. 1908 to November, 1910, 
engaged in steam read expe't work; November, 1910, became vice-president 
and general manager of the Kansas City Southern. 

Mr. Muhlfeld married Marie Murphy in Tilton, Illinois, .Apr-1 14. 1902. 
They have three chiMren, Marie, Jane and John. 

Much of the work done by M'-. Muhlfeld has been of in'ernational impor- 
tance. Under President L. F. Loree of the Baltimore & Ohio, he developed 
and adapted the first Mallet type locomotive and the Walschaert valve gear 
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WILLIAM JOHN KUPPER 

President of the Kupper-Benson Hotel Company 
of Kansas City. 



ILLIAM JOHN KUPPER. president of the Kupper-Benson Hotel 
Company, was born in Burlington, Iowa, September I 7, I 858, 
of good old German stock, his father, Jacob Kupper. having 
been born in Bieberheim, Germany, and his mother, Miria Mor- 
lock Kupper, being a native of Wurtemburg, Germany. 

Mr. Kupper is a Republican who would prefer that someone 
else hold the public offices while he looks after his business. 
He married Miss Anna Benson August 20, 1885. One daughter has 
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GEORGE TEBEAU 

National Baseball Celebrity and Owner of the Kansas City Team 
of the American Association. 



EORGE TEBEAU, who is a national baseball celebrity and one 
of ihe foremost baseball magnates of the Central West, owner of 
the Kansas City "Blues'* of the American Association, was born 
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A^^^^wA\ Bauvray Tebeau. He is married and has two children, a boy 
^^"^^^-^ i^ I and a girl. 

Early in life Mr. Tebeau became a baseball "fan," later a 
player and finally an owner of professional clubs. Up until two years ago 
he owned the Kansas City and Louisville teams in the American Association 
and the Denver team in the Western League. Selling the Louisville franchise, 
he now devotes most of his time to his Kansas City interests. 

In 1900, when Ban Johnson, president of the American League, organ- 
ized that body to fight the old National, he called the team that then repre- 
sented Kansas City to Washington. This team was under the management 
of Jimmy Manning. That left the territory of Kansas City open to organized 
baseball and it was then that George Tebeau stepped into the breach. Mr. 
Tebeau at that time was interested in Denver. He placed a Western League 
team in this city that won the pennant in I 90 I. This team also won the 
pennant in 1902 under a different management. 

The following year the American Association was organized and Mr. 
Tebeau transferred his Western League team over to that organization. Since 
then he has maintained the Association team here. The same year another 
Western League team was placed in Kansas City, but the territory was de- 
clared the property of the American Association and the following year this 
Western organization ceased to exist here. Since then the American Asso- 
ciation team has had full sway. 



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Known the World Over as a Breeder of Fine Horses; 
A Candidate for Nomination for Governor, 




^AMES A. HOUCHIN. who although not a resident of Kansas City, 
finds a place in this book because of his interests in the city and 
his world-wide reputation as the foremost horse breeder in Mis- 
souri, was born October 10, 1869, near Atlanta, Logan County, 
Illinois. The first seventeen years of his life w^ere spent upon the 
farm and his education was what he could obtain from four 
months out of the year at the country school house and three 
years in the schools at Lincoln, Illinois. The balance of the time his services 
were needed upon the farm. Having known what it is to labor, Mr. Houchin 
is a man who greatly respects those who live by toil. He is one of the most 
democratic men in the state, and is universally esteemed for the great success 
he has built from his humble beginning. 

January 2, I 89 I , Mr. Houchin entered Gem City Business College at 
Quincy, Illinois, and completed the commercial course there in five months. 
About the time he had finished the college received an inquiry for a young 
man who understood shorthand and bookkeeping. After exchanging letters. 
Mr. Houchin boarded a train, went to Jefferson City. Missouri, accepted the 
position offered at nine dollars a week and then wired the news to his parent?. 
He worked in the place for two years, then made a change that brought him 
better salary. From 1894 to the present time, Mr. Houchin has been asso- 
ciated with the Star Clothing Company, of which he took entire charge in 
1897. 

Mr. Houchin is a resident of Jefferson City, Missouri, but is known 
throughout the West on account of the remarkable success of his business and 
his connection with the breeding of high grade stock. He is the proprietor 
of the famous Onward Wilkes Farm which has furnished a large number of 
fine horses for all parts of the country. Mr. Houchin's show string always 
takes the lion's share of the glory when it goes into competition in the various 
horse shows throughout the world. Besides his interests in thoroughbred and 
standard horses, Mr. Houchin deals in registered Hereford cattle. Of course, 
being vitally interested in the stock interests of the West, Mr. Houchin has 
been an enthusisastic champion of Missouri and has time and again aided in 
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Being a strong Democrat, a man of known ability and integrity, when 
the party began to look; about for a candidate for governor in the 1912 
campaign, hundreds of Mr. Houchin's friends pressed him to make the race 
for the nomination. Prior to that he had refrained from seeking political 
favors, and at first he positively refused to consider the requests of his friends 
seriously. However, when it became apparent that his friends and business 
associates w^ere determined to force him into the race, he gave his consent, 
knowing that it meant a sacrifice of his personal interests. 

In announcing his candidacy for the gubernatorial nomination, Mr. 
Houchin issued a very business-like statement, characteristic of the man. He 
summed up his platform as follows : 

A practical administration of public affairs. 

Agricultural instruction in the high schools of the state, and have it ex- 
tended to the rural school as far as practical. 

Give the boy wtio cannot go farther than the little log schoolhouse an 
opportunity the equal of the city boy. 

State aid to the weak school districts of the state. 

A practical effort to better the condition of labor in every form. The 
slate should throw every safeguard around those who toil, and see that they 
have equal rights, protection and a square deal. 

We have talked good roads; let us now start building them. Let Mis- 
rouri be the first sta'e in this movement in the Central West. 

Give every citizen and every inte.est of the state equal, fair and jurt 
consideration. 



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EDWARD JOSEPH WHITE 

Prominent Attorney and Author of Several Books on Legal Questions 
Relating to Personal Injuries. 




DWARD JOSEPH WHITE, prominent attorney and author of sev- 
eral books dealing with legal questions relating to personal in- 
jury cases, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, February 1 I, 1869, 
the son of Edward Charles and Euphemia Louise (Moffett) White. 
His father w^as a native of Ireland and his mother w^as born in 
Augusta, Iowa. 

After completing the common school course, Mr. White 
entered the law department of the Missouri State University, from which he 
was graduated in 1891. He at once began practicing and in 1896 he \*'as 
elected prosecuting attorney of Lawrence County, Missouri, which office he 
filled until I 898. He then became associated with the legal department of 
the Missouri Pacific Railway Company and later was general attorney for 
that line. 

Coming to Kansas City in April, 1911, Mr, White at once took a promi- 
nent place in the legal fraternity, his reputation as author of well known books 
on legal questions having preceded him. He is the author of the following 
books : "Mines and Mining Remedies," "Personal Injuries in Mines." "Per- 
sonal Injuries on Railroads" and "Law in Shakespeare." 

In May, 1896, Mr. White married Miss Bessie Youngblood. He is a 
member of the University Club, Mid-Day Club and belongs to the Elks and '.he 
I. O. O. F. Politically he is a Democrat. 



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J. SCOTT SNIDER, M.D. 

Prominent Physician and Formerly an Assistant Police 
Surgeon of Kansas City. 



SCOTT SNIDER, a prominent physician and formerly an assist- 
ant police surgeon of Kansas City, was born in Centralia, Illinois, 
August 25. 1872. the son of A. J. and Mary E. Snider, both 
natives of Illinois. 

After attending college at Lebanon, Illinois, he came to 
Kansas City and entered the University Medical College from 
which he was graduated in 1900. From 1900 to 1903 he served 
as an assistant police curgeon. Since the latter year he has been practicing 




with exceptional success. 

Dr. Snider is a member of the Eagles and the Elks. 
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DAVID M. PROCTOR 

Prominent Attorney and a Member of the Firm of 
Borland, Pew & Proctor. 




^AVID M. PROCTOR, of the law firm of Borland, Pew and Proctor. 
was born in Monroe County, Missouri, April 21, 1881, the son of 
James M. and Ellen McPike Proctor, both natives of Missouri. 

Graduating from William Jewell College in 1902, Mr. Proc- 
tor entered the Columbia Law School of New York and w^as grad- 
uated in 1905. October 17, 1906, he married Dayse Whitecott. 
They have one son. 
After graduating from law school, Mr. Proctor came to Kansas City 
and began the practice of law, first being associated with Pierce Pate. In 
January, 1909, the present firm of Borland, Pew and Proctor was organized. 
It is now one of the leading law firms in Kansas City. Mr. Borland, the 
senior partner, is United States Representative from this district. Mr. Proctor 
has been interested in opening up several fine residence districts in Kansas 
City, in 1910 having launched the West Moreland addition, one of the best 
in the city. 

Mr. Proctor is a member of the Kappa Alpha fraternity and the Univer- 
sity club. He is a Republican in politics and a member of the Calvary Baptist 
church. 



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HENRY CARROLL TIMMONDS 

Attorney, Member Thirty-fourth Genera! Assembly of Missouri and 
Former Judge Twenty-sixth Judicial Circuit. 

ENRY CARROLL TIMMONDS. attorney, member of the Thirty- 
fourth General Assembly of Missouri and former Judge of the 
Twenty-sixth Judicial Circuit of Missouri from January \, 1899, 
to January I, 1905, says he is an Irish Kentuckian. His grand- 
father was born in Ireland and his father, Landon M. Timmonds, 
and his mother, Jane M. Tichenor, both were born in Ohio 
County, Kentucky. Mr. Timmonds himself was born in Knox- 
ville, Iowa, May 12. 1853. 

Mrs. Timmonds, the attorneys mother, was a lineal descendant of John 
Alden, who is reputed to have lost his first suit for his client. Miles Standish. 
and to have won for himself the hand of Priscilla. 

Being of Irish-Kentucky stock, it follows that Mr. Timmonds is a Demo- 
crat. He was the Democratic candidate for judge of the Kansas City Court 
of Appeals in 1 904, the year of the Republican landslide, and he w^ent down 
to defeat along with the Democratic state ticket. In 1910 his name was put 
on the Democratic ticket by the state committee to fill the vacancy on the 
state supreme bench occasioned by the dea'ih of Judge Fox. The contest 
instituted by the state committee as the result of the official count is still 
pending. 

Mr. Timmonds has lived in Kansas City since 1905. He is a member 
of Sigma Chi and a member of the S*ate Bar Association, the Kansas City 
Bar Association and the Commercial Club. 




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FERDINAND SULZBERGER 

President of the Sulzberger & Sons Company, the .Products of Which 
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ERDINAND SULZBERGER, president of the Sulzberger & Sons 
Company, was born in Karlsruhe, Germany, arriving in the 
United States at the age of nineteen. Soon after he formed a 
partnership with Samuel Schwarzschild in a small rendering 
establishment in New York City, the outgrowth of which is the 
present modern packing plant located at Forty -fifth Street and 
First Avenue. 
Sulzberger came to Kansas City in 1893, seeking a Western connec- 
a fast growing business. The Phoenix Packing Company's plant 
purchased, possession being taken in January, 1893. 
The growth of the Kansas City plant is evidence of Mr. Sulzberger's 
faith in the future possibilities of Kansas City. From a very small plant 
employing 250 men, it has grown to one now employing 2,000, and doing 
a business of $30,000,000 annually. The growth of the Kansas City plant 
is indicative of the growth of the entire company. Starting from a small 
rendering plant fifty years ago, it now has modern plants in New York City, 
Chicago, Kansas City, Oklahoma City, Los Angeles and Sioux Falls, South 
Dakota, with plans in preparation for new plants and extensions of the old 
ones. It has branch houses and selling agents in every corner of the civilized 
world and the products of the Kanfas City plant are found on the shelves of 
dealers from Nome to Cape Town, from New York to Yokohama. The total 
business of the company done in 1911 amounted to $100,000,000. 

The Schwarzschild Ac Sulzberger Company was succeeded in September, 

1910. by the present Company, Mr. Sulzberger still retaining the preside icy. 

Mr. Sulzberger has kept in close touch with Kansas City for the past 

twenty years, and in the growth and future possibilities of the city he is a 

firm believer. 



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DOUGLAS B. WORNALL 

Real Estate Dealer; One of the Successful Young Business Men 
in Kansas City. 




OUGLAS B. WORNALL, of the real estate f^rm of Wornall & 
Campbell, was born in Kansas City, July 4, 1888, the son of 
Samuel E. and Alice Buchanan Wornall. The family is one of 
the oldest in Jackson County, the Wornall line having been es- 
tablished in the vicinity of Kansas City as early as 1844. Both 
paternal and maternal ancestors date back to the French and 
Indian w^ars and the Revolutionary war. in which historic days 
they were very prominent. The great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch 
was a noted jurist and United States Senator from Kentucky, the state in 
which Douglas B. Wo mail's mother and father were born. 

After completing the grade and high school courses in Kansas City, Mr. 
Wornall entered the school of electrical engineering of Missouri University, 
where he spent three and a half years, returning to Kansas City to enter the 
real estate business, of which he has made a success, his firm now being one 
of the best known in the city. 

Mr. Wornall is a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity of the Universi- 
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THOMAS RANKIN MARKS 

Prominent Attorney, Republican Leader and Former Member of the 
Board of Police Commissioners of Kansas City. 




;\i)HOMAS RANKIN MARKS, one of the leaders of the Republican 
party in Jackson County and a former police commissioner of 
Kansas City under Governor Herbert S. Hadley, was born in 
Lafayette, Indiana, February 8, 1876, son of J. F. and Nancy 
C. (Rankin) Marks. Both his paternal and maternal ancestors 
came to America prior to the Revolutionary War and took a 
conspicuous part in those historic days. His father was a cap- 
tain in the Fortieth Indiana Infantry during the Civil War. 

After finishing the common schools Mr. Marks entered Purdue University, 
Indiana, and in 1 896 was graduated from the electrical engineering depart- 
ment. He took up the study of law in the University of Michigan and v^ras 
graduated in 1901. 

Coming to Kansas City in January, 1902, Mr. Marks began practicing 
law and from the first has held a conspicuous place in the legal fraternity. 

Mr. Marks is a member of the Mid-Day, University and Kansas City 
Athletic Clubs, is a Mason, and as captain of the One Hundred and Sixtieth 
Indiana Volunteer Infantry served a year in the Spanish-American War. In 
1908 he was elected a Republican presidential elector at large from Missouri. 
In 1904 he was secretary of the Republican County and Congressional Com- 
mittee of Jackson County. In 1906 he was chairman of the Republican City 
Committee, the Republican County Central Committee and the Republican 
Congressional Committee. In each capacity he was largely instrumental in 
his party's success. 



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General Manager Kansas City Stock Yards Company and Vice-President 
American Royal Live Stock Show. 




UGENE RUST, one of the men who placed Kansas City on the 
map as a live stock market, was born in Washington, Maine, in 
185 7. His father, W. M. Rust, and mother, Martha Rust, were 
natives of Maine and his ancestors were among the English who 
settled about Boston in 1636. 

For four years Mr. Rust was collector of customs at Bel- 
fast, Maine. Since coming to Kansas City he has been in the 
live stock commission business. He is at present general manager of the 
Kansas City Stock Yards Company, a position he has held since 1902. 

Naturally the American Royal Live Stock Show project interested him 
and he gave it the most hearty support and is among the men who made 
the annual show^ one of the biggest events of its kind in the world. Mr. 
Rust is vice-president of the organization. 

Mr. Rust graduated from East Maine Wesleyan Seminary. He married 
Nellie A. Case of Bangor, Maine, October 6, 1874. They have three children, 
Fred W., Donald D.. and Dorothy C. 

Mr. Rust is a director of the National Bank of Commerce, is a Republican 
and one of the original Kansas City boosters. 



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FORD F. HARVEY 

,Pi*esident of the Fred Harvey System and One of the Receivers for the 
Metropolitan Street Railway Company. 




]ORD F. HARVEY, president of the great Fred Harvey System 
and one of the receivers for the Metropolitan Street Railv^ay 
Company of Kansas City, was born in Leavenworth, Kansas, 
March 7, 1866, the son of Frederick H. and Barbara S. Harvey. 
His father was a native of London, England, and his mother came 
from Austria. 

With a common school training as his educational asset, Mr. 
Harvey became associated with his father in the extensive system of eating 
houses and hotels which the senior Harvey established along the railroads 
throughout the country. Upon the death of his father, Mr. Harvey became 
the executive head of the system which is the largest of its kind in the United 
States. 

When the Metropolitan Street Railw^ay went into the hands of receivers, 
Mr. Harvey was appointed by Judge Hook of the Federal Court, joint receiver 
with R. J. Dunham, and these two men are now handling the affairs of the 
great street car system for the court. 

In 1888 Mr. Harvey married Josephine Blair, daughter of General Charles 
W. Blair of Kansas. They have a son and a daughter. 

Having been associated with the Fred Harvey System since his youth, 
its history is very largely the life history of Ford F. Harvey. The chain of 
dining rooms, lunch rooms and hotels, extending from the Great Lakes to 
the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, reaching from end to end of the 
Santa Fe Railway System, and covering half a continent, had its beginning 
in 1876 with the establishment of an eating house at Topeka. Kansas. The 
founder was Fred Harvey, who came from England to America when he was 
about fourteen years old, and secured employment with a railroad. 

After a series of changes and promotions, and while w^ith the Santa Fe 
Railway, where his duties required him to travel through the West where 
inferior hotel facilities were characteristic, Mr. Harvey was impressed w^ith 
the opportunity for improvement, and it occurred to him it would be a good 
advertisement for the railroad to have neat and inviting eating houses. The 
plan he submitted to the management was accepted, and the first eating house, 
of which Mr. Harvey was in charge, proved so thoroughly popular that sim- 



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ilar places were opened all along the line wherever trains arrived at the hours 
for meals. 

This was the first time well cooked food had been served to railway 
travelers in the West, and naturally it was a great attraction. It is a remark- 
able organization now, with several thousand persons on the payroll. There 
are seventy establishments, besides fifty and more dining cars, each contrib- 
uting to the pleasure and satisfaction of its guests with substantial delicacies. 

Where hotels have been constructed, a style of architecture typical to 
the Southwest has been employed, generally following the lines of the old 
Franciscan missions of California, and bearins: the names of some characters 
prominent in early Southw^estern history. The Cardenas, at Trinidad ; the 
Castaneda, at Las Vegas; Fray Marcos, at Williams; the Escalante, at Ash 
Fork; El Garces, at Needles; the Alvarado, at Albuquerque, and El Tovar, at 
Grand Canyon, are named after members of the band led by Coronado, and 
Franciscan missionaries, who came into the Southw^est in 1540 and a little 
later. EI Ortiz, at Lamy, is constructed on the lines of an old Spanish 
hacienda and is very unique, while the style of the Bisronte, at Hutchinson, 
will be remembered as Elizabethan, or Old English, in character. 

Fred Harvey's greatest service to the public has been in raising the 
standard of living, and though he has passed away, his influence still dom- 
inates in the conduct of the service, and it is felt as w^ell in the homes of 
thousands of his patrons who learned in his dining rooms what was good 
to eat. 



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JOB A. EDSON 

President Kansas City Southern Railway Company and One of the 
Railroad Authorities of the Central West. 




OB A. EDSON, president of the Kansas City Southern Railway 
Company and one of the railroad authorities of the Central West, 
was born in Sylvania, Lucas County, Ohio, February 14. 1854, 
son of Charles and Mary Edson. 

With but a common school education Mr. Edson began al 
the very bottom of the railroad business and since he was thirteen 
years old has found that business his field of opportunity. In 
1872 he was a telegraph operator for the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern, 
having been serving in that capacity for five years. In that year he went to 
the Union Pacific and served as operator, train dispatcher, chief dispatcher 
and trainmaster until 1886. During 1886-7 he was chief dispatcher of the 
Iowa & Dakota division of the Chicago, Milwaukee 6c St. Paul. In 1887 he 
was made division superintendent at Atchison, Kansas, for the Missouri Pacific. 
From 1889 to 1899 he was with the Cotton Belt on the Texas division, hold- 
ing successively the offices of superintendent, general superintendent, general 
manager and vice-president. From 1899 to 1903 he was general manager 
under the receivers for the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf. He was manager 
of the Denver At Rio Grande and Rio Grande Western in 1903-4; general 
manager Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, 1904-5. and was made president 
of the Kansas City Southern in June, 1905. 

Mr. Edson married Miss Margaret Gilroy of Laramie, Wyoming, Novem- 
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ROBERT JAMES MARTIN 

Member of the Firm of Martin & Borders, Dealers in Lands, 
and an Enthusiastic Reclamationist. 




OBERT JAMES MARTIN was born on a farm near Lone Jack. 
Missouri, February 27, 1866. His father, James C. Martin, and 
his mother. Sally Martin, both born in Sarah County. North 
Carolina, moved to Missouri in 184 7 and settled on a farm in 
A Y Wif^\\ Cass County, three miles south of Lone Jack. The youngest 
vj L^^^ac/I of twelve children, Mr. Martin lived on a farm until he was 
twenty years old, then moved to Warrensburg, Missouri, and 
entered the Normal School, from which he was graduated in 1891. He is 
now a member of the board of regents of the school, having been appointed 
to the place by Governor Hadley in 1910. 

After graduation Mr- Martin taught school for several years. He was 
admitted to the practice of law in 1 896. but was never engaged in active 
practice. On January 9, 1905, he married Yetta Prange. They have two 
children. 

Mr. Martin could never wean himself away from his love for the soil and, 
while he farms now by proxy only, he and his partner are large dealers in 
land. Reclamation and intense farming are his hobbies. He has been con- 
nected with several of the largest reclamation projects of late years, among 
the most prominent being the Trinchera Irrigation System, San Luis Valley. 
Colorado; the Goose Lake Valley Irrigation System at Lakeview, Oregon, and 
the reclamation of the Florida Everglades, the funds used by the State of 
Florida in the reclaiming of the Everglades having been largely secured 
through the efforts of his firm. 

A Democrat in politics. Mr. Martin is always interested in anything that 
will help Kansas City. He is a member of the Knife and Fork Club, the 
Mid-Day Club and the Commercial Club. 



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JOHN D. SEITZ 

Capitalist; President John D. Seitz & Son Investment Company and 
Interested in Numerous Other Enterprises. 




OHN D. SEITZ, capitalist, engaged in the real estate, securities 
and loans business with offices in the Sheidley building, was born 
in Seneca County, Ohio, May 19, 1856, the son of Isaac and 
Ann Caroline Seitz. He was educated in the Normal School in 
Fostoria, Ohio, and in 1685 married Pansy A. Moore, of Virginia. 
They have one son, Harold. 

There are few careers which equal Mr. Seitz's in activity. 
He first came to Kansas City in 1876, when the city still had the atmosphere 
of the frontier and at a time when it took determination and courage for a 
man to succeed. In 1885 he moved his family to Kansas City and since that 
date has resided here continuously. 

Before coming to Kansas City Mr. Seitz was engaged in the cattle busi- 
ness in Nebraska, being manager of the Sheidley ranch on the Platte river. 
He was later president of the Sheidley Cattle Company in South Dakota, 
which closed out its business in 1904. He then became interested in the 
famous Lucky Tiger mines of Sonora, Mexico, one of the richest mining 
properties in Mexico, and he has been a stockholder and officer in the com- 
pany since its organization. 

Starting in as a cowboy. Mr. Seitz has attained an unusual measure of 
success by virtue of an exceptional business ability. He is identified with 
the Midland Life and Kansas City Casualty Insurance Companies and with 
the Kelly Fire Insurance Company. He is also a director of the Security 
National Bank. 

Mr. Seitz has reversed the usual order of things in that his money was 
made outside of Kansas City and is being spent in the city. He is a member 
of the Kansas City Club, Country Club, Mid-Day Club, Automobile Club and 
Aero Club, and is one of the first men in every movement which aims to 
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FRED STERLING DOGGETT 

Proprietor of the Blossom House; a Hard and Constant Worker for 
a Better Kansas City. 




RED STERLING DOGGETT, proprietor of the Blossom House, 
one of Kansas City's oldest hotels, was born in Chicago, Illinois, 
February 29, 1856, son of Joseph B. and Lydia A. Doggett. His 
father was born in Middleboro, Massachusetts, and his mother in 
Rome, New York. At the age of fourteen he entered University 
of Chicago, leaving that institution after passing his examina- 
tions for the senior class. The three succeeding years were 
spent in the laboratory of the Chicago Sheffield Steel Company and the fol- 
lowing three years in the mines of Colorado. 

Mr. Doggett came to Kansas City in 1878. He was first employed by 
the Kansas Pacific Railroad, and later by the Chicago & Alton, in whose 
service he was rapidly advanced from a subordinate clerk to the position of 
general Western passenger agent of the road. 

In 1884 Mr. Doggett married Alice Blossom Matteson, daughter of 
George N. Blossom, proprietor of the Blossom House. On his retirement from 
the railroad business Mr. Doggett took up the management of the Blossom 
House and still gives it his personal attention. 

Mr. Doggett has always taken a great deal of interest in public matters. 
He was one of the early members of the Commercial Club, served for many 
years as one of its directors, and at one time was its vice-president. For 
many years he was active in the conduct of the Kansas City Club and for some 
time was its president. He also served for many years as a director of Con- 
vention Hall and was president of the organization for three terms. He was 
a director in the Kansas City Fair Grounds Association and of the Priests of 
Pallas Association, and president of that organization for several years. He 
was appointed a member of the Board of Park Commissioners in 1903 and 
served in that capacity six consecutive years. 

Always interested in Free Masonry, Mr. Doggett is a Knight Templar, 
Thirty-second Degree Scottish Rite Mason and a member of the Mystic Shrine. 
Mr. Doggett has always been thoroughly interested in every movement 
for the upbuilding of Kansas City and has always unhesitatingly given to 
Kansas City his best energies and ail of his time and attention which the neces- 
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PHIL RILEY TOLL 



One of the Prominent Lumbermen of the Southwest and a Successful Business 

Man in Other Lines. 




HIL RILEY TOLL, known throughout the United States as one of 
the most extensive lumbermen of the Southwest, and a man who 
has repeatedly gone to the front for Kansas City and the state of 
Missouri, was born November 22, 1863, in St. Joseph County, 
Michigan, the son of Alfred and Mary Lee Toll. His father, a 
prominent lumberman of the West, was a native of Schenectady, 
New York, and his mother came from Maryland. 
Mr. Toll received his education at Kemper School, Boonville, Missouri, 
Missouri State University and the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, 
New York. After obtaining a good general education Mr. loll entered the 
Kansas City School of Law. He completed the course with credit but he has 
never practiced, for the reason that extensive business interests have com- 
manded his time and energy in other fields. 

On the death of his father, Mr. loll became chairman of the board of 
directors of the Badger Lumber Company, located in Kansas City, and one 
of the largest lumber concerns in the West. He came into the same position 
with the Fort Smith Lumber Company, the Central Railway of Arkansas, the 
Choctaw Investment Company and the Reciprocal Investment Company, all 
successful business concerns. 

Besides these exacting interests, Mr. Toll has found time to lend his in- 
fluence and judgment to other business interests, which, perhaps less ex- 
tensive, are equally as successful. 

December 15, 1886, Mr. Toll married Grace Kemper, an accomplished 
young woman of Fulton, Missouri. They have a son and three daughters. 
Mr. Toll has found time to make his family life a success in every sense of the 
word and is a conspicuous figure in Kansas City social life. His fine home 
is always open to his friends, whom he numbers literally by the hundred. 

There may be somethin;^ typical of the man in his reply to a query 
regarding his political faith. Mr. Toll dismissed the subject by saying, "Men. 
not platforms." A keen student of human nature, he has associated himself 
with big men and drawn big men about him and his judgment has yet to be 
proved erroneous when it comes to selecting men of ability and integrity, 

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Red Cross of Constantine. He is a member of the Country Club and as a 
member of the Commercial Club has been one of the leaders in almost all the 
movements of recent years which have had as their aim the boosting and 
bettering of commercial and industrial Kansas City. 

Probably one of the busiest men in Kansas City, Mr. Toll is at the same 
time extremely denTiOcratic and easily approached. He is popular Vk'ith the 
newspaper fraternity and many of the local newspaper w^riters enjoy his 
friendship. He is an assocate member of the Kansas City Press Club and is 
always ready to assist the "boys" in their undertakings, both in a financial 
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FRANK H. BURROW 

Vice-President National Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Missouri, 
and an Authority on Financial Matters. 



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^RANK H. BURROW, vice-president of the National Reserve Bank 
of Kansas City, Missouri, and former national bank examiner, 
was born in Smith Center, Kansas, April 6, 1879, the son of 
J. R. and Mina E. Burrow, his father being a native of Illinois 
and his mother of Iowa. 

Mr. Burrow received a common school education and found 
his field of activity in finance and banking. He went into the 
National Bank in Smith Center, Kansas, and served that institution as 




vice-president. Later he was made national bank examiner and as such spent 
much of his time in Topeka, Kansas, and Kansas City, becoming thoroughly 
familiar with the financial situation, not only in Kansas City but in Missouri 
and Kansas and the adjacent territory. For one year prior to its consolidation 
with the National Reserve Bank, Mr. Burrow was assistant ras^hier of the 
Central National Bank and when the consolidation was effected he was made 
vice-president of the National Reserve Bank, which position he now holds. 

February 8, 1912, Mr. Burrow married Margaret Louise Collins. Mr. 
Burrow is a Republican in politics, and, while handling a remarkable amount 
of work, has found time to acquire a large circle of friends. He is a member 
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ARCHIBALD ALLEN PEARSON 

Wholesale and Retail Millinery Dealer and Kansas City's 
Most Original Advertiser. 




;iRCHIBALD ALLEN PEARSON, one of the most extensive dealers 

in wholesale and retail millinery in Kansas City, was born in 

Lincoln County, Tennessee, October 21, 1847, son of Merideth 

and Ann Moore Pearson. When ten years old Mr. Pearson lost 

his father by death and he was reared by his grandfather, General 

William Moore, a captain under General Jackson in the War of 

1812. 

In 1864 Mr. Pearson joined the Confederate cavalry under General Forrest 

and saw service in many of the most desperate engagements of the Civil War. 

He was the youngest member of Forrest's escort at the surrender and was 

paroled with his gallant leader at Gainesville, Alabama, May 10, 1865. 

Following the close of the war Mr. Pearson clerked for some years in a 
dry goods store in Mitchell, Indiana. Then he engaged in the cloak and suit 
business in New York for a year and came to Kansas City in 1883, opening a 
millinery establishment in a store room eleven by forty feet. He moved into 
the "Ten Hundred" block on Main street tw^enty-eight years ago and has been 
for seventeen years in the fine four-story building at 1006 Main street which 
he now^ occupies. 

Kansas City knows Mr. Pearson as the most original advertiser in the 
city. "Pearson's Pointers" in the theater programs are read by thousands 
each w^eek. 

Mr. Pearson is a member of the Ad Club and Commercial Club, and is 
a thirty -second degree Mason, being a member of the following : Ararat 
Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. ; Consistory of Western Missouri, No. 2; Oriental 
Commandery, No. 35. K. T. ; Mitchell Council, No. 48. R. & S. M. ; Orient 
Chapter, No. 102, R. A. M. ; Kansas City Lodge, No. 220, A. F. & A. M. 
He is a past master of Mitchell Lodge No. 228, A. F. & A. M., Mitchell. 
Indiana. 

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JOSEPH E. MAXWELL 

President of the Maxwell Investment Company, General Dealers in 
Investments, Farm Mortgages and Municipal Bonds. 




JOSEPH E. MAXWELL, known throughout the Southwest as an 
extensive dealer in farm mortgages, municipal bonds and other 
forms of investment, president of the Maxwell Investment Com- 
pany, 1011 Baltimore Avenue, was born in Jonesboro, Tennessee, 
November 12, 1850, the son of William H. and Mary E. Max- 
well. His father was born in Jonesboro, Tennessee, and his 
mother in Green Meadow^s in the same state. 
After receiving the usual common school education he entered the Ohio 
Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio, in 1867, remaining there until 1869. 
While in college he joined the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity. Mr. Maxwell lost 
little time in connecting himself with the business which was to be his life's 
work. In I 8 7 I , he went into the farm mortgage business in Ottawa, Kansas, 
in the name of William H. Maxwell ^ Company, his father being the senior 
member of the firm. 

This business continued successfully until 1876 when Mr. Maxwell went 
to Paola, Kansas, and became a member of the firm of F. M. Shaw & Com- 
pany, engaged in the farm loan business. Withdrawing from this concern in 
1878, Mr. Maxwell continued in the farm loan business in Paola, his firm 
name being Jones Ac Maxwell. 

In January, 1905, H. C. Jones' interests were taken over by William L. 
Maxwell, son of the subject of this sketch, and the business was conducted 
under the firm name of Maxwell 6c Maxwell until July, 1909. 

Having built up an exceptionally extensive business throughout Kansas 
and Missouri and the < ntire Southwest, the Maxwell 6c Maxwell firm, in 
July. 1909, gave place to a reorganization under the firm name of the Maxwell 
Investment Company and the business was moved to Kansas City as the log- 
ical commercial center of the territory from which the firm drew its patron- 
age. 

Mr. Maxwell's operations were at first limited to Franklin County, Kan- 
sas. Territory was added from time to time until it covered most of the 
eastern part of the state. Later some counties in Missouri were included, 
then the best part of Oklahoma, Arkansas and Texas, so that the circum- 
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miles square until it includes the best farming sections of four states. Start- 
ing with one or two investors the Maxw^eli Investment Company now has 
satisfied customers from one ocean to the other. 

In the business since 1871, and all the time in the Southwest, Mr. Max- 
well today is considered one of the best authorities on investments in this 
part of the country, and the Maxwell Investment Company is one of the largest 
concerns of its kind in Kansas or Missouri. 

January 9, 1873, Mr. Maxw^ell married Carrie B. Loth r op. They have 
one son. 

Politically Mr. Maxwell is a Republican. He is a member of the follow- 
ing Masonic bodies: Paola Lodge, No. 3 7, A. F. and A. M., Paola, Kansas; 
Paola Chapter, No. 20, R. A. M. ; St. Elmo Commandery No. 22, Knights 
Templar, Paola, Kansas. He is a charter member of the Commandery and 
a Past Eminent Commander. He is also a Thirty-second Degree Mason, mem- 
ber of Wichita Consistory No. 2, Wichita, Kansas. He belongs also to the 
Kansas City Club, and finds time to be an enthusiast in all campaigns for the 
betterment of the city and state. 

Besides his interest in the Maxwell Investment Company, Mr. Maxwell is 
part owner in the Uinta County Irrigation Company of Wyoming, a company 
having 40,000 acres of water rights in Wyoming under the Carey Act. 



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GRANT I. ROSENZWEIG 

One of the Most Learned Members of the Bar 
of Kansas City, Missouri. 




RANT !. ROSENZWEIG, attorney, with offices in suite 131 M7 
Commerce Building, was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, September 
15, 1865, the son of Louis and Minnie Rosenzweig. His father 
was a native of Pennsylvania and his mother of Indiana. 

Mr. Rosenzweig was graduated from the Erie, Pennsyl- 
vania, high school in 1 883 and from Yale University, where he 
established an enviable record as a scholar, in 1887. 
Coming then to 'Kansas City, Mr. Rosenzweig began the practice of law. 
and from the first his services were much in demand. He has met with uni- 
form success throughout his career, and while political prestige has often 
awaited him, he has refused to enter politics, giving his legal practice his un- 
divided attention. He is a Democrat. 

October 1 9, 1 893, Mr. Rosenzweig married Mathilde Roseberg of Kan- 
sas City. 

In October, 1887. Mr. Rosenzweig came to Kansas City and began the 
career which eventually placed him in his present enviable position in the 
fore rank of the legal fraternity. With Herbert L. Doggett he formed a 
partnership which continued until Mr. Doggett's death in 1894. Since 
that date Mr. Rosenzweig has practiced alone, having a full office organiza- 
tion, including three practicing attorneys, under his personal direction. 

No attorney in Kansas City has a more exacting clientele and general 
practice. Mr. Rosenzweig makes a specialty of corporation and commercial 
cases, and while few of his cases are the kind that create general comment, 
they are all of vital importance, involving large amounts and delicate points 
of business law. Mr. Rosenzweig practices in all the state and federal courts, 
including the Supreme Court of the United States. In character, reputation 
and integrity, which he esteems of highest importance. Mr. Rosenzweig occu- 
pies the same high plane which he does as a lawyer. 

A man of great mentality, socially Mr. Rosenzweig has been popular 
from the first day he reached the city. He is a Mason. Knight of Pythias, 
a member of the United Workmen. Royal Arcanum. B'nal B'rith, Progress 
Club, Elks. Elm Ridge Club, and an associate member of the Kansas City Press 
Club. 



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JOHN BARTON POLLARD 

President of the Gate City National Bank and a Well Known 
Financier of the Southw^est. 




OHN BARTON POLLARD, one of the prominent financiers of the 
Southwest, president of the Gate City National Bank, was born 
in Flinthill, Mo., January 19, 1875, the son of Thomas Jefferson 
and Demarius Lanier Pollard. His maternal grandfather came to 
Missouri from Virginia in 1845 and his paternal grandfather came 
to Missouri from Virginia in 1850. Both Mr. Pollard's parents 
w^ere natives of Missouri, his father having been born in Flint- 
hill and his mother in Troy. 

Mr. Pollard was reared on a farm, attended school in Troy and then 
went to Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri. In 1894 he began work for 
the Peoples Bank, of Troy. In 1904 he went to Hannibal, Missouri, and or- 
ganized the Hannibal Trust Company and \vas later interested in banking at 
Nowata, Oklahoma, coming to Kansas City in 1909 when he became inter- 
ested in the Gate City National Bank, one of the most substantial banking in- 
stitutions in the city. 

Mr. Pollard is known throughout the Southwest as a man of conservative 
methods and sound judgment in financial matters and he enjoys the confi- 
dence of a large and exacting patronage. He married Frances Kabler, Decern- 
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BENJAMIN BUTLER FOSTER 

President of the Foster Lumber Company, and One of the 
Prominent Lumbermen of the Southwest. 




ENJAMIN BUTLER FOSTER, president of the Foster Lumber Com- 
pany, was born in Leavenworth, Kansas, April 4, 1863. His 
father, John McCullough Foster, and his mother, Letitia Samp- 
son Foster, were natives of Pennsylvania. 

John McCullough Foster, the father, was the eldest son of 

Samuel D. Foster, second son of Alexander Foster, Sr., who was 

born June 3. 1773, in the County of Londonderry, Ireland, and 

emigrated to America when twenty years old, landing in Philadelphia, July 

12, 1793. 

Benjamin B. Foster was one of nine children. His parents settled in 
Leavenworth, Kansas, in 185 7. The father invested heavily in real estate and 
suffered losses in the decline in values following the Civil War. To retrieve 
his fortune he became a lumberman in a small way, and that was the founda- 
tion of the Foster Lumber Company of today. He first placed a stock of 
lumber at Randolph, Kansas, in the spring of 1879, where he and his son 
Benjamin located. Success followed this venture and many new yards were 
added from time to time, the firm name being John Foster & Sons. In Feb- 
ruary, 1889, the company established headquarters in Kansas City, changing 
the name to the Foster Lumber Company, and opening a wholesale office. 
Mills were bought and in January, 1896, the business was incorporated by the 
father and sons and is still owned by the family. Subsequent to the death of 
John Foster in 1 899, Benjamin was made president of the company, which 
office he has since held. 

Mr. Foster is a Republican in politics, but has never sought any public 
office. He has never married, is a Mason and a member of the Evanston Club. 
He is one of the staunch business men of Kansas City. His company now 
owns some seventy retail yards and large lumber manufacturing interests in 
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JOHN LAURENCE JOHNSTON 



Cashier National Reserve Bank of Kansas City; One of the Rising 
Young Bankers of the Southwest. 

;OHN LAURENCE JOHNSTON, cashier of the National Reserve 
Bank, was born in Louisville, Kentucky, April 23, 1884, son of 
John T. M. and Florence Brooks Johnston, w^ho w^ere both 
natives of Missouri. 

Mr. Johnston completed his education in Washington Uni- 
versity, St. Louis, Missouri, and, September 9, 1908, married 
Ethel M. Brown, of Watertown, New York. 
Having taken up the banking business Mr. Johnston came to Kansas 
in 1909 and became affiliated with the National Reserve Bank, of which 
now cashier. Besides this position he is a director of several success- 
ful corporations located in the Southwest. 

Mr. Johnston is a Democrat and is a member of the Kansas City Country 
Club and the Kansas City Club. 




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JOHN J. FOSTER 



Founder and Owner of One of the Oldest Retail Harness 
Businesses in Missouri. 




; OHN J. FOSTER, who established and owns the J. J. Foster har- 
ness and saddle business, 5 1 1 Main Street, which is said to be one 
]^ of the oldest retail harness establishments in Missouri, was born 
near Camden, in Ray County, Missouri. He came to Kansas City 
in 1875. His father, George W. Foster, and mother, Kezziah 
Foster, came from Batavia, Clermont County, Ohio, and settled 
near Camden in 1836. 
Having had but twelve months of schooling, Mr. Foster's education and 
business success is of his own making in every sense of the word. He started 
out as an apprentice at the harness making trade and for three years worked 
for five dollars a month and his "keep," but he learned his trade so ihnroughly 
that now, the name "Foster" means good harness and saddles throughout the 
city apci iho rnt re West. In 1879 he established a retail business, (he firm 
name being DeBerry & Foster, the house being located at 306 Main street. 
Later Mr. Foster purchased Mr. DeBerry's interest and has since conducted the 
business alone. in 1^08 the Foster, Helmreich, Wagner Harness Company 
was organized and Mr. Foster is heavily interested in this company. He is 
also a member of the Foster-Pulver Clothing Company which w^as organized 
in 1910. 

In nnliiics Mr. Foster is an Independent. He is a member of Elm Ridge 
Golf and Country Club, the Knife & Fork Club, Rotary Club, Royal Arcanum, 
Elks, Moose, Commercial Club, Latour Hunting Club, Cooley Lake Hunting & 
^i^hing C'lub. He is a real bai:cball fan and is president of the J. J. Foster 
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AUGUST B. UHL 

General Manager of the Walden W. Shaw Auto Livery Company, 
and an Automobile Pioneer. 




UGUST B. UHL, general manager of the Walden W. Shaw Auto 
Livery Company, has been associated with the automobile busi- 
ness in its various branches since the introduction of the motor 
car to private use in 1899. He was born in New Washington, 
Ohio, March 6, 1874. His father, Benedict Uhl, was a native of 
Germany, coming to America in 1836 from Landau, Gerniany, 
his birthplace, and settling in northwestern Ohio. His mother 
was born in Decatur, Indiana. 

Mr. Uhl is one of a family of ten boys, whose ages range from 26 to 52 
years and none of whom is under six feet in height. Six of the brothers liv^ 
in Toledo, Ohio, where they operate a large metal manufacturing plant. He 
married Miss Mary Owen September 7, 1 898. He came to Kansas City Janu- 
ary 16, 1910. He is an Elk and a member of the Kansas City Club, the Rotary 
Club and the Railroad Club. 

No political affiliation is claimed by Mr. Uhl, who confines his interest in 
politics to the support of the men he believes best equipped to fill the office 
they seek. 



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ANDREW FORSYTHE EVANS 

City Counselor of Kansas City Under Mayor Jost and Formeriy 
Circuit Judge of Jackson County. 




JNDREW FORSYTHE EVANS, city counselor under Mayor Jost 
and one of the most prominent attorneys in the state, was born 
in Mercer County, Kentucky, September 13, ) 862, the son of 
William R. and Mary J. Forsythe Evans. He was graduated from 
Centre College, Kentucky, in 1882, and in June, 1908, marricu 
Georgia Hal ley Latshaw^. 

Judge Evans, after educating himself, for a time followed 
the occupation of school teaching, reading law in the meantime. In 1884 
he was admitted to the bar. Although he passed the bar examination with 
an exceptionally high standing he decided to spend one year at Harvard 
University and followed this with a year in Virginia University. After a years 
practice in Kentucky, Judge Evans came to Kansas City in 1887. 

From the very first Judge Evans commanded recognition. Finding him 
a shrewd and conservative student of events, the Democratic party soon 
drafted him into its councils and in November, 1902, he was elected circuit 
judge of Jackson county for a term of four years. He resigned this office 
in January, 1905. Much against his wishes he was drafted by the Demo- 
cratic party as candidate for mayor in 1910. He made a remarkable race 
against great odds, losing the election by a very small majority. 

Judge Evans is a member of the Jackson County Bar Associttiion, the 
Elks, the Knife and Fork Club, and several other lodges and organization:?, 
being always among the first to respond in any campaign for the better- 
ment of Kansas City and the state. 



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GEORGE BILLINGSLEY HARRISON 

Vice-President of the New England National Bank of Kansas 
City and a Prominent Financier. 

EORGE BILLINGSLEY HARRISON, vice-president of the New 
England National Bank, is a Missourian by birth and ancestry. He 
was born in Glasgow, Missouri, October 23, 1870. His mother, 
Lovan Birch Harrison, and his father, George Billings Harrison, 
were native Missourians. 

Although an active Democrat, Mr. Harrison has never found 
time to hold public office or to ask for one. Neither has he found 
other lines of business sufficiently attractive to divide his attention with that 

which he early chose for his own banking. 

Mr. Harrison graduated from Pritchett College, Glasgow, Missouri, in the 
class of 1888. He was married to Adelaide Ligon. March 4, 1891, and to 
them have been born two children, Erskine Birch and Ruth Harrison. 




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CHARLES S. KEITH 

President and General Manager of the Central Coal and 
Coke Company. 




17 HARLES S, KEITH, president and general manager of the Central 
Coal and Coke Company, one of the largest concerns of its kind 
in the United States, is a native of Kansas City, born January 28. 
1873. Of Scotch lineage, his father, Richard H. Keith, was born 
in Lexington, Missouri, in 1 842 and came to Kansas City in 1871, 
where he laid the foundation for the gigantic commercial success 
completed in his later years. The senior Keith was a man of de- 
termination and unquestioned personal bravery. When eighteen years old, 
he enlisted under Colonel John Bowman and saw active service for the Con- 
federacy at Lexington, Oak Hill, Pea Ridge and later, with the Landis battery 
of artillery, in the first and second engagements at Corinth. After participating 
in many of the bloodiest conflicts of the war, he refused a parole when taken 
prisoner at Vicksburg, and was sent to Camp Morton, from which place he 
made his escape. 

After the Civil War R. H. Keith went to California and later was asso- 
ciated with the trading interests in Kansas and New Mexico. In 1871 he 
came to Kansas City and invested his entire capital, forty dollars, in a small 
coal yard on Bluff street. To that forty-dollar coal yard, Kansas City owes no 
small part of her commercial importance of today, for it is of that forty-dollar 
coal yard, miraculously transformed into a great commercial concern of 
national importance and recognition, that Charles S. Keith is president and 
general manager. 

From the date of the father's beginning to the present day the concern 
*»as grown until where three men were employed, over ten thousand are now 
needed in the transaction of more than seven million dollars' worth of business 
annually. 

The Bluff street coal yard matured into the Keith & Perry Coal Company, 
which in turn, materialized into the Central Coal and Coke Company, the 
latter name being taken in 1893. Under this reorganization the lumber de- 
partment of the firm was developed until today it is one of the largest in 
the Central West. 

Beginning the manufacture of lumber in January, 1694, the Central Coal 
and Coke Company rebuilt and operated a large mill at Texarkana, Texas, 



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until 1 902 when it was moved to Carson, Louisiana, that it might be nearer 
the timber tracts. At the Carson mil! five million feet of lumber is cut and 
shipped in a month and the Missouri & Louisiana Railroad, fifty-one miles in 
length, over which all this lumber is hauled to connecting fines, is virtually 
owned by the Central Coal and Coke Company. A second mill is operated 
at Keith, Louisiana, on the Kansas City Southern Railway, and other mills are 
operated in Texas. 

Charles S, Keith, the son of R. H. and Anna Boorman Keith, w^as reared 
in the atmosphere of this growing industry and it was but natural that he 
should thoroughly master it. After obtaining a common school education he 
went to St. John's College, at Fordham, New York, and was graduated in I 89 L 

In the same year he went into the offices of the Central Coal and Coke Com- 
pany and during the following six years, clearly demonstrated that the judg- 
ment, energy, and keen business ability of the father had been passed on to 
the son. In 1907 he became president and general manager of the gigantic 
concern. 

June 12, 1900. Mr. Keith married Miss Lucille Hill of Keytesville, Missouri, 
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JOHN E. SW ANGER 

Formerly a Member of the Missouri General Assembly, and 
Now State Bank Commissioner. 




^ OHN E. SWANGER, state bank commissioner and for many years 
a conspicuous figure in Missouri state affairs, was born in Milan, 
Missouri. June 22, 1 864, son of Jefferson and Sarah Ann Swanger, 
who were both natives of Pennsylvania. Mr. Swanger's ancestors 
were German and French. 

After obtaining the usual common school education Mr. 
Swanger attended the State Norma! School at Kirksville, Missouri. 
On completing the course there he entered the law department of the Uni- 
versity of Michigan. Returning to his native state he became interested in the 
newspaper field and for some time was affiliated with the Springfield Repub- 
lican and the St. Joseph Gazette, withdrawing from active newspaper work 
for the practice of law. 

Being a man of exceptional ability and a strong Republican, Mr. Swanger 
at once became a factor in his party and in 1893 he was elected to the state 
general assembly, in which he served until 1897. He served as secretary of 
state from 1905 to 1909 and in the latter year was made state bank commis- 
sioner, which office he now holds and in which he has made a remarkable 
success. 

July 1, 1898, Mr. Swanger married Norma F. Eubanks. 

Mr. Swanger is a man of striking personality and has always been a friend 
of and a favorite with the newspaper fraternity. 



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Lawyer, Banker, Real Estate Dealer and Railroad Builder; A Man 
Always Working for Kansas City, 

ICHARD W. HOCKER, active in the construction of the Kansas 
City, Lawrence & Topeka Railroad Company, one of the first 
suburban lines projected from Kansas City, was born in Lincoln 
County, Kentucky, October 14, 1853, son of R. W. and Margaret 
( \ /i\\K^\^ ^' ^°*^^^'"- He was the youngest of eight children. His father 
y ly^^-^a'yl died when Richard was but two years old. 

Mr. Hocker is a self-made man in every sense of the word 
and as such, holds the respect of the commercial and financial Southwest. 
When 20 years of age he began practicing law in Kentucky. He went to St. 
Joseph, Missouri, in 1883, as cashier of the Saxton National Bank. Resign- 
ing in 1885, he was vice-president of the Citizens National Bank of Kansas 
City, Missouri, until 1888, when he organized the Metropolitan National Bank, 
of which he was president for five years, resigning on account of ill health. 
He then became interested in other commercial pursuits not so confining, 
among them the Kansas City, Lawrence 6c Topeka Electric Railroad, a road 
which, when completed, will be of great service and benefit to Kan?as City. 

Mr. Hocker is a man who inspires confidence. Modest and home lov- 
ing, he is at the same time a sagacious business man and an expert in real 
estate values. He was a member of Kansas City's first utilities commission 
and was delegated on behalf of the city to fix land values to be paid in con- 
nection with the Belt Line improvement and refused compensation for his 
w^ork. He resigned from the utilities commission in 1910 and was appointed 
city treasurer to fill out the unexpired term of William J. Baehr, deceased. 
He is a Democrat and one of the men who has always been for Kansas City's 
progress. 

June I 5, I 887, Mr. Hocker married Mary D. Ketcham of St. Joseph, 
Missouri, who died March 5, 1907. He has three daughters, Lucy K., Sara 
W. and Margaret Ann. He is a member of the Commercial Club, Elm Ridge 
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RICHARD ROBERTSON 

President of the Norman & Robertson Abstract Company, one of the 

Largest in the Southwest. 




ICHARD ROBERTSON, president of the Norman & Robertson 
Abstract Company and one of the most successful young men in 
Kansas City, was born in Kansas City. Missouri, November 12, 
1 882, son of Richard and Mary Calhoun Robertson. His father, 
a native of Kentucky, came to Kansas City in 1871. His mother, 
who was born in Louisiana, is a descendant of John Calhoun and 
her ancestors were prominent in national history from the Col- 
onial Wars to the Civil War. 

June 4, 1905, Mr. Robertson married Lucerne Miller. They have two 
children, a daughter and a son. 

After being graduated from the Central High School in 1900, Mr. Rob- 
ertson was with the firm of Norman & Robertson for two years, was a news- 
paper writer for four years and in 1909 was made president of the Norman 
& Robertson Company, doing a general business in abstracts of titles, one of 
the largest firms of its kind in the city. 

Mr. Robertson is a member of the Kansas City Athletic Club, Kansas 
City Club, Automobile Club, and by virtue of his work as a newspaper man, 
an associate member of the Kansas City Press Club. 



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THEODOR C. PELTZER 

President of the Peltzer Estate Company and Dealer in Real 
Estate, Loans and insurance. 




HEODOR C. PELTZER, dealer in real estate, real estate loans 
and fire and tornado insurance, president of the Peltzer Estate 
Company and director in numeious other corporations, was 
bo.n at Winlhrop, Missouri, November 2b, 16?!). His father, 
Theodor Peltzer, was born in Germany and his mother, Ger- 
trude Merwick Peltzer, came from Holland. The family moved 
to KantaG City when Theodor C. was eighteen months old. 
Mr. Peltzer, after finishing the common school course, entered St. Bene- 
dict's College at Atchison, Kansas, from which he was graduated in 1894. 
Immediately after leaving school he identified himself with the real estate 
and insurance business established by his father and which has increased 
to large proportions under the son s management. 

On June 28, 1904, Mr. Peltzer married Miss Mattie Couch. They have 
no children. Always identified with everything that tended to advance the 
business or social interest of Kansas City, he is a member of the Commercial 
Club, the Kansas City Club, the Young Men's Chrictian Association, the City 
Club, the Automobile Club, the Knights of Columbus, and holds a life member- 
ship in the German Hospital Association and the Kansas City Athletic Club. 



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Secretary of the Emery, Bird, Thayer Dry Goods Company and a Prominent 
Figure in the Mercantile World. 




"" HARLES C. PETERS, one of the most prominent men in the 
Kansas City mercantile world, secretary of the Emery, Bird, 
Thayer Dry Goods Company, was born in Danville, Illinois, Feb- 
ruary 22, 1866, son of C. T. and Amalia Peters, both natives 
of Germany. 

While Mr. Peters has taken an active part in Kansas City's 
progress for many years, he has always held himself in the 
background, being uncompromisingly hostile to the publicity searchlight 
when turned in his direction. 

Mr. Peters is a Democrat, but he holds the interests of the community 
and the integrity of men above party principles. Mr. Peters' wife, prior to 
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President of Peet Brothers Manufacturing Company, the Largest Soap 
Concern in the West. 




^ILLIAM PEET, president of Peet Brothers Manufacturing Com- 
pany, one of the big commercial interests of Kansas City and 
one of the largest soap concerns in the United States, was born 
in Chatteris, England, March 25, 1847, son of Robert and Sarah 
Jane Peet, both natives of England. 

Mr. Peet left home at the age of fifteen and went direct 
to Cleveland, Ohio, where he learned the soap making business. 
He remained there nine years and six months. In 1872 he came to Kansas 
City determined to start a manufacturing establishment in the West. He had 
saved money in Cleveland ^vith the intention of returning to England on a 
visit and it was this money which he invested in his first venture in Kansas 
City. For one year he was alone. Then General W. H. Powell became 
interested with him. Later General Powell sold his interest to Captain J. W. 
White and finally the firm of Peet Brothers & Company was organized, 
being later changed to the present name. 

In August, 1870. Mr. Peet married Miss Nettie Scoter. 

A Republican, Mr. Peet has taken no active part in politics, devotin;^; 
all of his time and energy to building up the great business which he founded 
and promoting the industrial and commercial interests of the city and state. 



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EUGENE D. NIMS 

First Vice-President and Treasurer of the Southwestern Group of Bell 
Telephone Companies and a Bank Director. 




UGENE D. NIMS, first vice-president and treasurer of the South- 
western group of Bell Telephone companies and a member of 
the board of directors of the National Bank of Commerce, is a 
native of Wisconsin. His interests have, however, long been 
associated with the Southw^est, particularly with Texas, Okla- 
homa, Arkansas and Louisiana, in all of which he has large 
holdings. 
Oklahoma has, more, perhaps, than any other state, felt the force of 
Mr. Nims* ability. He has been prominent in the recent marvelous develop- 
ment of the new commonwealth, being financially back of some of the most 
extensive business enterprises in the young state and a director in several of 
its leading banking institutions. His oil properties and land holdings in 
Oklahoma and Texas have placed him far toward the front in these lines. 

Primarily a banker, Mr. Nims long since recognized the growing impor- 
tance of the telephone business in the industrial world and has for several 
years been actively engaged in its development. One of the pioneers in the 
Southwest in the movement for universal telephone service, he is living and 
working in the hope of seeing at no distant day the telephone regarded as 
much a necessity in every house as the sewing machine and the refrigerator 
are today. He believes, in view of the present rapid development of the 
industry, it is only a question of a decade or so before telephone conversa- 
tion over long distance lines will be as common as local service is now, and 
even cheaper. 

Taking charge of the Pioneer Telephone Company of Oklahoma in its 
infancy, Mr. Nims has brought it to the front so that it now stands full-fledged 
among the grown-up corporations of the state and is pointed to as an example 
of aggressive business enterprise worthy of emulation. His conduct of the 
affairs of the company has won him much praise from independent com- 
panies w^ith which he has come in contact throughout Oklahoma. Arkansas, 
Colorado and Texas. As a head of the Bell group, his success in this territory 
has caused him to be recognized as a leading figure in the national telephone 
field. The group of companies of which Mr. Nims is vice-president is com- 
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Company of Missouri, the Pioneer Telephone and Telegraph Company of 
Oklahoma and the Southwestern Telephone and Telegraph Company of Texas, 
Louisiana and Arkansas. 

Mr. Nims was one of the first heads of a public service corporation to 
offer to throw open the books of his company to the public and has always 
in his conduct of the business, especially where the question of rates arose, 
offered assistance to the public in arriving at a full knowledge of what the 
requirements of the connpany were. 

With his headquarters in Kansas City, Mr. Nims, though the majority 
of his interests lie outside the city, is a firm believer in its future and is 
ever ready to help push any project which has as its object the betterment 
of municipal and civic conditions, and despite his many business affiliations 
finds time to participate largely in the social affairs of the city. He is a 
member of the Kansas City Club, the Mid-Day Club and the Evanston Golf 
Club. He is a good friend to the newspaper men and always aids them 
liberally in every worthy enterprise. 



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JULIAN GIRVAN KIRSTEN 



Kansas City Manager of the Anderson Electric Car Company's Branch House 
and an Authority on Electric-Driven Vehicles. 




:jULIAN GIRVAN KIRSTEN, Kansas City manager of the branch 
house of the Anderson Electric Car Company, was born in 
Otsego Lake, Michigan, January 18, 1884, the son of Adelberl 
and Sarah Florence (Wilson) Kirsten. Mr. Kirsten's ancestors 
on his father s side came from Germany and located in Detroit 
in 1855. His mother's parents were pioneers in Michigan and 
the earliest white settlers on Lake Huron. 
Mr. Kirsten is one of the most prominent men in the automobile indus- 
try in the Southwest. He came to Kansas City in 1910 from Detroit, Mich- 
igan, where he had been associated with the home office of the Anderson 
Electric Car Company, and opened the first branch house to be established 
in Kansas City by a manufacturer of electric-driven automobiles. From 
the Kansas City branch office Mr. Kirsten takes care of Missouri, Kansas, 
Oklahoma and Texas. He was clerk of the Michigan State Senate in 1901. 

On November 10, 1909, Mr. Kirsten married Winnogene Conner. They 
have two children. 

A member of the Mid-Day, Rotary and Kansas City Athletic Clubs, Mr. 
Kirsten also belongs to the Kansas City Motor Car Dealers' Association, 
is president of the Kansas City Electric Vehicle Dealers' Association and a 
member of the Electric Club. 



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President of the Westport Avenue Bank and a Director in the 
National Reserve Bank. 




ENJAMIN FINLEY HARGIS. prominent banker, president of the 
Westport Avenue Bank and a director of the National Reserve 
Bank, both of Kansas City, was born in Howard County, Mis- 
souri, son of Josiah N. and Mary Finley Hargis. Mr. Hargis 
received the usual public school training and spent his youth 
on a farm near Lee's Summit, Missouri. Leaving there in 1872 
he went to Belton, Missouri, and began his career in the banking 
business. Being a man of excellent business ability, conservative and holding 
the complete confidence of all with whom he associated, Mr. Hargis' success 
was assured. In 1896 he came to Kansas City and at once became interested 
in local finances. Today he holds a conspicuous place with two of the 
soundest financial institutions in the city. 

Mr. Hargis married Pet Lillard, in Boyle County, Kentucky, in 1880. 
Eleven years later she died. Mr. Hargis then married again, his bride being 
Henrietta Lillard, a sister of his first wife. He has two sons, Benjamin Lillard 
and Will H. Hargis, and one daughter, now Mrs. F. E. Georgia. 

Politically Mr. Hargis is a Democrat. He belongs to the Commercial 
Club and takes a keen interest in the city's welfare. 



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THOMAS J. B. PAIN 

Secretary Campbell Glass and Paint Company, One of the Largest Concerns 
of Its Kind in the Southwest. 




HOMAS J. B. PAIN, secretary of the Campbell Glass and Paint 
Company, was born in London, England, October 28, 1849, 
son of Thomas J. B. and Sarah Knight Pain. He attended the 
public schools until he was thirteen years old, when he entered 
the office of Cassell, Petter & Galpin, publishers, where he 
remained until he came to America in 1 869. 

Landing in the United States, Mr. Pain came immediately 
to Kansas City, which has been his home ever since. He learned the car- 
penter's trade, serving his apprenticeship under the late Captain Joseph H. 
Fink, and continued in this work until 1874. In that year he entered the 
paint and glass business as an employe of John A. McDonald. Eight years 
later he left the McDonald house to connect with Campbell & Cutler, with 
which he is still connected under the reorganized firm name. 

Mr. Pain married Charlotte A. Saunders of New York City May 23, 1882. 
They have one child, Lilly Muriel. In politics Mr. Pain is a Democrat. He 
is a member of the Elks, the Commercial Club and the Kansas City Club, 
also vestryman and junior warden of St. Mary's Episcopal church. 



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CHARLES L. SIMPSON 

Prominent Real Estate Dealer and President of the Real 
Estate Board of Kansas City. 




]HARLES L. SIMPSON, one of the most successful real estate men 
in Kansas City, was born in Lawrence, Kansas, in 1865, the son 
of Samuel N. and Kate L. Simpson, who w^ere of the New Eng- 
land stock which not only gave America her Independence, but 
furnished the hardy pioneers for the Central West. His great- 
grandfather fired the first shot at the battle of Bunker Hill. The 
gun and the commission of the Revolutionary soldier are now^ 
in Mr. Simpson's possession. Samuel N. Simpson, the father, w^as a pioneer 
in Kansas and lived in Lawrence during the border warfare days. 

After having completed the common school courses, Mr. Simpson con- 
tinued his education in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and upon 
finishing there he came to Kansas City, Kansas, where his father was then 
living, and took up the real estate and investment business. From the first 
his business has been a success until today he is considered one of the most 
authoritative judges of real estate investment in Kansas City. Being a man 
who has not allowed his personal interests to blind him to the possibilities of 
the city and keenly interested in municipal improvements, he w^as recently 
elected president of the Real Estate Board of Kansas City. 

Mr. Simpson married Mary M. Gamble. They have two daughters. In 
politics Mr. Simpson is a Republican. 



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JOHN M. CLEARY 

Prominent Member of the Kansas City Bar and Formerly a Member of the 
State Legislature of Missouri. 




.OHN M. CLEARY, prominent attorney and former member of 
the Missouri state legislature, was born in Odell, Illinois, August 
21, 1869, son of Michael and Ellen Cleary, both of whom were 
natives of Ireland. 

After completing the high school course in Odell, Mr. 
Cleary entered St. Viateur's College at Bourbonnais, a suburb of 
Kankakee, Illinois, from which he was graduated in 1892. He 
then entered the Bloomington Law^ School and was graduated in 1894. 

Since coming to Kansas City Mr. Cleary has held a conspicuous place 
in the ranks of successful attorneys and has been active in the Democratic 
party. He was elected to the state legislature in 1899 and served with dis- 
tinction. For several years he was reporter for the Kansas City Court of 
Appeals. 

June 30, 1892, he married Mollie O'Rourke. They have one son, John 
M. Cleary, Jr. 



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Stock and Grain Broker, Member of Orthwein-Matchette, One of the 
Best Known Firms in the Southwest. 




■IHARLES CLEMMENS ORTHWEIN, member of the general 
brokerage firm of Orthwein-Matchette, was born in St. Louis, 
Missouri, February 13, 1869. His father, Charles F. Orthwein, 
a pioneer of St. Louis and the first grain exporter of that city, 
was born in Germany. His mother, Caroline Nulsen Orthw^ein, 
was born in St. Louis. 

Mr. Orthw^ein, after finishing the common school course, 
entered Washington University in St. Louis, from which he was graduated 
in 1892. Upon leaving school he \vent into business w^ith his father and in 
1893 w^as admitted to partnership, the firm name being C. F. Orthwein & 
Sons. 

A branch of the company's business w^as established in Kansas City and 
in 1897 C. C. Orthwein came here as manager. 

Mr. Orthwein married Miss Edith Hall of St. Louis in 1897. He is a 
member of the Kansas City Club, the Driving Club, and the Masonic Lodge, 
and is actively identified with all organizations and movements tending to 
enhance the growth and progress of the city. 



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ARTHUR CHAPMAN 

Owner of Chapman's Cafe, the Finest in Kansas City; Former Member 
Missouri State Legislature. 




RTHUR CHAPMAN, owner of Chapman's Cafe, the finest eating 
place west of the Mississippi River, was born in Clay County, 
Missouri, December 30, 1864, son of Dr. Andrew L. and Mildred 
F. Mosby Chapman. The father was born in Washington County, 
Pennsylvania, and the mother in Clay County, Missouri. 

Mr. Chapman's father, who died some years ago, was a 
grandson of Thomas Campbell and a nephew of Alexander Camp- 
bell, founder of the Christian Church. The latter also founded Bethany 
College, West Virginia, in 1841, and was its president until his death in 1866. 
The mother of Mr. Chapman was a cousin of General John W. Mosby, prom- 
inent as a Confederate leader during the Civil War. 

In 1866 Mr. Chapman's parents removed to Kansas City, then little 
more than a country village, where the family has been located ever since. 
Arthur obtained his education in the ward schools of Kansas City, supple- 
mented by a course in Central High School. In the mornings and evenings 
before and after school he carried papers and did other odd jobs to keep 
himself supplied with pocket money, and after his graduation he enter-^d 
the employ of the telephone company as a switchboard operator. Thus 
did his desire to be independent financially early manifest itself. 

Leaving the telephone office as soon as opportunity offered, Mr. Chap- 
man connected himself w^ith the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis Railroad 
and soon afterward was made chief clerk in the paymaster's office of the 
Southern Kansas Railroad. While employed in the railroad office he was 
appointed deputy recorder of deeds of Jackson County and served as secre- 
tary of the Kansas City Board of Health during the administrations of Mayors 
Cowherd and Davis. He also worked for a while in the city engineer's 
office. 

Mr. Chapman is and always has been a prominent worker in the Demo- 
cratic party. in 1902 he received the nomination for representative of the 
Seventh district in the state legislature and was elected by a large majority. 

About twenty years ago Mr. Chapman engaged in the retail cigar busi- 
ness and is now^ owner of the large cigar store in the new Kansas City Live 
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and Main streets, both of which have been very successful. He has also 
been somewhat active in the real estate field, confining himself almost entirely, 
however, to assisting in the management of the large estate left by his father. 

Mr. Chapman, who during his long residence in Kansas City has kept 
his eyes on its progress in all lines, long ago noted that the city was not 
keeping pace with others of its class in the matter of good eating places, 
so he determined when the time was ripe to establish a cafe that should be in 
keeping with the city's progress along other lines. Accordingly, about a year 
ago he took a long lease on the southw^est corner of Tw^elfth and Main streets, 
w^here he has fitted up the finest and most artistic dining rooms in the Middle 
West. It is to Kansas City what Marline's is to New York. 

The entire furnishing of Mr. Chapman's new^ cafe was made especially 
for it and everything from floor to roof is of the highest quality throughout. 
In decoration, service and cuisine it is the equal of the finest in the country. 
The kitchen is in a specially constructed room on the roof, removing all odors 
of cooking from the dining room and assuring plenty of light and air and the 
best of sanitary conditions in the preparation of food. In this cafe w^as 
inaugurated the plan, which has since been taken up by the leading hotels 
of the city, of employing only the highest grade of white men as waiters, Mr. 
Chapman personally engaging his first crew of workers from the big hotels 
of New York City. 

Mr. Chapman is an associate member of the Kansas City Press Club 
and one of the best friends to newspaper men in Kansas City. 



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Secretary and Treasurer of the Kansas City Veterinary College and 
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ESCO STEWART, dean of the Kansas City Veterinary College 
faculty and secretary and treasurer of the college corporation, 
was born in Weston, Ontario, March 23, 1855. After com- 
pleting his preliminary education at Mayville Academy, Mayville, 
New York, he entered the medical department of Wooster Uni- 
versity at Cleveland, Ohio, from which he was graduated in 1878. 
Following his graduation. Dr. Stewart removed to Oakland, 
he practiced medicine until 1885, when he was graduated from 
the veterinsrv department of Iowa State College at Ames. He then located 
at Atlantic, Iowa, where he remained until I 888, when he went to Council 
Bluffs, Iowa. In 189 1 he entered the government service as veterinary in- 
spector at South Omaha, Nebraska. The ne.xt year he came to Kansas City, 
where he followed the same work. 

In 1901 Dr. Stewart resigned from the government inspectorship to 
devote his whole time to the Kansas City Veterinary College, in which he 
had been interested for some years. Since 1893 he had been an instructor 
in the school and when it was reorganized in 1 906 he was made dean of 
the faculty and secretary and treasurer of the corporation. He is also a 
member of the firm of Moore, Stewart & Brown, practicing veterinarians. 

Dr. Stewart was president and subsequently secretary of the Iowa State 
Veterinary Medical Association from 1887 to 1892, and secretary of the 
American Veterinary Medical Association from 1895 to 1903, when he was 
elected president. He was thrice president of the Missouri Valley Medical 
Association. 

On December 25, 1879, Dr. Stewart married Emma B. Beebe of Corry, 
Pennsylvania, at Oakland, Iowa. They have two children. Belle, now Mrs. 
C. D. Folse, and Rosa R. Stewart, both resident in Kansas City. 



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SIDNEY J. HARE 

One of the Most Prominent Landscape Architects in Kansas City; Member 
of the Firm of Hare & Hare. 




IDNEY J. HARE, who with S. Herbert Hare makes up the firm of 
Hare & Hare, landscape architects, with offices in the Gumbel 
Building, was born in Louisville, Kentucky, January 26, I860, 
son of C. C. and Isadora B. Hare, who were natives of Ken- 
tucky. 

graduated from the Central High School of 
Hare took several special courses to prepare 
landscape architect. From 1885 to 1896 he 
office as a transitman, leaving that office to 
engage in his present business. Mr. Hare came to Kansas City in 1868. 

In 1885 Mr. Hare married Miss Mathilda A. Korfhage. They have a 
daughter, Nellie M., and a son, T. Herbert. 

Mr. Hare is a member of the American Civic Association and the Society 
of Cemetery Superintendents. 



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CHARLES L. FLAUGH 

Vice-President of the B. T. Whipple Real Estate Company and 
Former President of the Real Estate Board. 




iHARLES L. FLAUGH, prominent in Kansas City as an extensive 
real estate dealer and vice-president of the B. T. Whipple Real 
Estate Company, was born on a farm in Crawford County, Penn- 
sylvania, January 6, 1863. son of John and EInora Flaugh. On 
the paternal side his early ancestors came from Germany and set- 
tled in Pennsylvania, where Mr. Flaugh's father was born. His 
mother was a native of Vermont. 
Mr. Flaugh's education was obtained in the public schools of Western 
Pennsylvania and in a business college at Titusville, Pennsylvania. December 
15, 1885, he married Martha Hunter, youngest daughter of Wilson Hunter of 
Saegerstown, Pennsylvania. They have four daughters, Zoe, born in Pagosa 
Springs, Colorado, now Mrs. Howard M. Tufts; Zuvia, born in Saegerstown, 
Pennsylvania, now Mrs. Thomas G. Buecking ; Helen, born in Kansas City, and 
Martha, born in Kansas City. 

Coming to Kansas City in 1887, Mr. Flaugh immediately associated him- 
self with the Whipple real estate offices and has been with this big concern 
ever since. Today he is considered one of the first authorities on real estate 
matters in Kansas City and in 1910 was elected president of the Real Estate 
Board. He was also a member of Mayor Brown's cabinet, having been called 
into that council as the representative of the real estate interests. 

Mr. Flaugh is a member of the National Association of Real Estate Ex- 
changes and a prominent member of the Commercial Club and the Knife and 
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CHARLES C. GRAVER 

Real Estate Broker and a Resident and Booster of Kansas City 
For the Last Fifteen Years. 



""HARLES C. CRAVER, prominent real estate broker of Kansas 
City, was born in Warren, Ohio, son of Owen and Catherine 
Kistler Craver, both natives of Ohio. 

Mr. Craver received his education in the common and high 

schools of Newton Falls, Ohio. He came to Kansas City fifteen 

years ago and engaged in business, being now one of the best 

known real estate brokers in the city. 

In October, 1892, Mr. Craver married Anna L. Detwiler. They have 

one son. Mr. Craver is a Deniocrat and a man of liberal and progressive 

views and has always taken a great interest in all movements which have 

aimed to improve Kansas City. 




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CHARLES A. SMITH 

Architect for the Board of Education of Kansas City and Originator 
of Many Ideas in Scientific Construction. 




IHARLES A. SMITH, one of Kansas City's foremost architects, at 
present architect for the Board of Education, was born in Steuben, 
Ohio, March 22, 1866, son of A. L. and Cynthia L. Smith, both 
natives of Ohio. 

Mr. Smith came to Kansas City in 1887 and has been closely 
connected with the construction history of Kansas City since 
that date. As architect for the Board of Education, he is respon- 
sible for many of the modern school buildings of which the city now boasts, 
and many of the plans he has incorporated here, looking to scientific ventilation 
and other sanitary features, have been adopted throughout the country. 

June 4, 1898, Mr. Smith married Mary E. Bailey. In politics he is an 
Independent. He is a member of the Hartwell Hunting Club. 



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Prominent Lumberman and Automobile Dealer, President of the 
D. A. Kendall Motor Car Company. 

]AV1D ALDEN KENDALL, well known throughout the Central 
West as a lumberman and interested in the automobile business^ 
being president of the D. A. Kendall Motor Car Company, was 
born in Prairie Du Sac, Wisconsin, in 1847, son of Uriel H. and 
Mary Waterbury Kendall, his father being a native of Vermont 
and his mother of New^ York. 

Mr. Kendall followed the common school with a course in 
Baraboo, Wisconsin, Academy, from which he was graduated in 1867. In 
!87l he married Eliza M. Taylor of St. Peter, Minnesota. They have four 
sons, John A., Harry T., Roy O., and Paul E. 

Mr. Kendall began his business career in the retail lumber business with 
John Robson of Winona, Minnesota, in 1871, and was interested in lumber 
yards at Mankato and Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, until 1879. From 1879 to 
] 883 he was in the grain business at Clay Center, Kansas, and was secre- 
tary of the Lansing Lumber Company of Lansing, Iowa, from 1883 to 1889; 
president of the Sawyer 6c Austin Lumber Company of La Crosse, Wisconsin, 
from 1889 to 1904; treasurer and genera! manager of the same company 
at Pine Bluff, Arkansas, until 1 908. He is now interested in lumber yards 
in Oklahoma and Texas. 

Mr, Kendall came to Kansas City in 1900 and for several years has 
been interested in the automobile business. The sales department of his 
firm has been handled largely by Mr. Kendall's son, Roy O. Kendall. 



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THEODORE GARY 




President of the Kansas City Home Telephone Company and One of 
the Largest Individual Stockholders. 

HEODORE GARY embarked in the telephone business about fif- 
teen years ago in Macon, Missouri, after having been interested 
for twenty years in real estate, insurance and banking. He 
learned that telephony was a good business. He had spent much 
of his time formerly in efforts to secure business, but now, for 
the first time in his life, he had plenty without even asking for 
it. He found that all that was necessary was to take care of the 
business offered. Good service is all the people demand and everybody is 
ready to pay cash for it. 

In a short time after his first telephone investment Mr. Gary secured 
independent exchanges in the following Missouri cities: Nevada, Joplin* 
Carthage. Webb City and Carterville; a year later Atchison, Kansas, was 
added. These plants had to be refinanced and rebuilt, new capital being 
interested. All these undertakings were promptly accomplished. Less than 
a year later the exchange at Independence, Missouri, was purchased. Mr. 
Gary then became interested in the Topeka Independent Telephone Company, 
Topeka, Kansas. The company was reorganized, refinanced, a complete 
underground system laid out and built, a fireproof building erected and a 
new switchboard installed. 

In 1 908 Mr. Gary formed a company that became the owner of the 
St. Joseph. Missouri, Independent Company and built a plant in conformity 
with the best development of the business in that city. This company con- 
trols a long distance company with pole line mileage of some four hundred 
miles in territory directly tributary to St. Joseph, Missouri, with exchanges 
at Tarkio. Missouri, and Hamburg, Iowa. 

In February, I 9 1 2, the Telephone Securities Company was organized. 
It purchased the controlling interest in the Kansas City Home Telephone 
Company and the Kansas City Long Distance Telephone Company, and imme- 
diately thereafter Mr. Gary was elected president of the Kansas City Home 
Telephone Company. 

Mr. Gary, beginning the telephone business in a small w^ay. has grown 
with it. He has hundreds of stockholders and business associates, all of whom 
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believing with him that the telephone business is the safest and best business 
in the world. 

Besides being president of the Interstate and the International Independ- 
ent Telephone Associations, Mr. Gary has served on many of the important 
committees of both bodies, w^as secretary and treasurer and a director of the 
Missouri Association for many years and was a pioneer in the advocacy of 
compulsory physical connection of telephone lines and exchanges. He now^ 
advocates a broad and liberal policy for the associations and stands for all 
independently owned exchanges being admitted to membership, with a modi- 
fication of competitive methods in the telephone business to meet present 
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RICHARD B. JONES 



Prominent Insurance and Loan Agent and Head of the Firm of R. B. 

Jones & Sons. 



ICHARD B. JONES, one of the best known insurance and loan 
agents in Kansas City, was born in Covington, Kentucky, Novem- 
ber 1. 1849. son of William W. and Mary Calvert Jones. 

Mr. Jones came to Kansas City in 1887 and has been prom- 
inently connected with the insurance business since that time, 
having today one of the largest patronages in the city. Asso- 
ciated with him in the business are his three sons, Bryson, Carv 
W. and Cliff C. Jones. 

Interested though he is in every movement that makes for a better and 
bigger city, Mr. Jones is not a self advertiser and only his most intimate 
friends know the full extent of his public work. He says he prefers deeds 
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Manager of the William J. Burns National Detective Agency for the 
Kansas City District. 




LARENCE W. TOBIE, manager of the Kansas City division of 
the William J. Burns National Detective Agency, was born in 
Rantoul, Illinois, May 17, 1869, the son of Hiram S. and Mary 
E. Tobie, the father being a native of Maine and the mother 
of Ohio. 

After obtaining a common school education, Mr. Tobie 
attended Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois, leaving there in 1887. 
For the last fifteen years Mr. Tobie has been in detective work and is well 
known throughout the United States for his efficient work. For ten years 
he was located in Springfield, Illinois, leaving there in August, 1901, to 
come to Kansas City. When the now famous William J. Burns decided to 
open an office in Kansas City to take care of the Western business of his 
detective agency, he made Mr. Tobie manager of the district, which covers 
ten states. This was in May. 1910. 

October 19, 1890. Mr. Tobie married Ida Webster of Pittsfield, Illinois. 
They have one son, How^ard S. Tobie. 

Since Mr. Tobie took charge of the Burns agency in Kansas City he 
has figured in several remarkable cases and has added much to his own and 
the agency's reputation for quick and reliable work. He is a man of remark- 
able personality and has always been a close friend of the newspaper fra- 
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ORIN LEROY CURTIS 

District Manager for the Kissel Kar Company and One of the Best Known 
Automobile Dealers of the Southwest. 




LEROY CURTIS, district manager for the Kissel Kar Auto- 

mpany and one of the widest known automobile men 

the Southwest, was born in Aurora, Illinois, March 6, 1875, 



son of Orin LeRoy and Eulalia Rockwell Curtis, his father being 
a native of Pennsylvania and his mother of New York. 

Mr. Curtis was educated for a civil engineer, but recog- 
nizing the future of the automobile industry, he began to study 
trade conditions and manufacturing methods until he became one of the first 
experts in his line in the West. He was then made manager of the Kissel 
Kar interests with headquarters in Kansas City, He is also owner of the 
Curtis Motor Company. 

In 1905 Mr. Curtis married Miss Lillian Hauke. 



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JOHN CRAWFORD JAMES 

President Board of Education, Wholesale China Dealer and President 
Kansas City, Missouri, Gas Company. 




;OHN CRAWFORD JAMES, president of the Board of Education 
and the foremost china dealer in the state, whose business is one 
of the principal features of commercial Kansas City, was born 
in Logansville, Kentucky, July 24, 1848, son of T. M. and Sarah 
A. James. He w^as educated in Brown University and after 
being graduated came West, selecting Kansas City as the most 
promising place to locate. 
The firm of T. M. James & Sons, dealers in and importers of earthen- 
ware, china and glassware, was established in 1863 and its business now 
extends over the entire Southwest. J. C. James has been a member of the 
firm since 1 872. 

Mr. James was appointed to the Board of Education in 1 884 and has 
served continuously until the present, having been president of the board 
four years. He has been president of the Kansas City. Missouri, Gas Company 
for the last six years. In politics he is a Democrat, but he has never allowed 
party prejudice to stand between him and his support of measures which he 
considered to the best interests of the community. That he has been one of 
the men always fighting for a better commercial city is shown by the fact 
that he was elected president of the Commercial Club and served with credit 
to himself and the organization. 

In 1873 Mr. James married Miss Fannie Shouse. They have five children. 



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Partner of Oppenstein Brothers, Jewelers, and Member of the Upper House of 

the City Council. 




)|OUIS OPPENSTEIN, one of the firm of Oppenstein Brothers, jew- 
elers, and a member of the upper house of the city council, was 
born in Chicago, Illinois, in I 874. 

Going to Colorado when quite a young man, Mr. Oppenstein 
engaged in the jew^elry business, meeting ^vith success from the 
first. In 1902 he came to Kansas City and opened a jewelry 
house, which is now one of the largest and most completely fur- 
nished in the city. 

Being a strong Republican and a man of unquestioned integrity, Mr. 
Oppenstein was made the candidate of that party for the upper house of the 
city council in 1910 and was elected by an easy majority. Beside his jew- 
elry business, Mr. Oppenstein is interested in banking, being vice-president 
of the Mercantile Bank of Kansas City. 

Mr. Oppenstein is a member of the City Club, the Progress Club and 
the Elks Lodge. 



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JOHN R. KELLEY 

Former Member of the City Council and Owner of the Kelley 
Cooperage Company. 



!]OHN R. KELLEY, owner of one of the most extensive cooperage 
businesses in Kansas City and formerly a member of the city 
council, was born in Sandusky, Ohio, October I, 1856. 

Coming to Kansas City in the spring of 1879, Mr. Kelley 
decided to make this his future home and in 1 88 1 he estab- 
lished himself in the cooperage business. Starting out on a 
modest scale, he has built up an extensive business and now 
has one of the largest shops of its kind in the state. 

In 1902 Mr. Kelley married Miss Margaret Grulish. 
Politically Mr. Kelley is a Democrat. 




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GEORGE KUMPF 

Prominent Fire Insurance and Real Estate Dealer and Former 
Member of the Board of Public Works. 




EORGE KUMPF, well known as a fire insurance agent and real 
estate dealer, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, March 15, 1858, 
son of Henry C. and Wilhelmina Kumpf. Mr. Kumpf's father 
was one of the men prominent in the building of Kansas City. 
Fie was one of the first members of the school board, its first 
secretary and served as city auditor four terms, city comptroller 
three terms and as mayor of Kansas City three terms. 
Mr. Kumpf, the subject of this sketch, has also been active in municipal 
affairs and has taken a prominent part in many of the campaigns which have 
resulted in the city's present standing. He ^vas a member of the board of 
public works during the administration of W. S. Cowherd and James A. 
Reed. He is a Republican and a man of liberal ideas. 

April II, 1 888, Mr. Kumpf married Lena V. Engler. They have two 
sons and a daughter. 

As a real estate and insurance agent, Mr. Kumpf is one of the best knovk^n 
men in Missouri. He has been in business for thirty-four years and during 
that time has built up an extensive patronage and a remarkable circle of 
friends. 



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ROBERT NESCH 

President of the Pittsburg Paving Brick Company, One of the 
Largest in the United States. 




OBERT NESCH, one of the prominent figures in the brick manu- 
facturing industry of the Southwest, president of the Pittsburg 
Paving Brick Company, was born in Switzerland, November 2b, 
1852, the son of Henry and Barbara Nesch. 

Mr. Nesch came to the United States in I 869 and for three 
years was located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Then he came 
w^est believing he w^ould find a better field. in 1872 he came to 
Kansas City, then w^ent to Atchison, Kansas, and later to Pittsburg, Kansas. 
In 1890 Mr. Nesch aided in the organization of the Pittsburg Paving Brick 
Company in Pittsburg. The business began \vith a small plant and has ex- 
perienced a steady grow^th until today it is the largest concern of its kind in 
the Southwest, doing an extensive business in Missouri, Kansas, Texas, Okla- 
homa and the southern states. While the company's great reputation has 
been made in the manufacture of paving brick, it also makes a full line of 
building brick. 

Leaving the management of the plant in Pittsburg to his three sons, Mr. 
Nesch came to Kansas City in 1900 to take charge of the company's general 
offices. Of late years he has acted only in an advisory capacity, leaving the 
active management of the company to his sons. Most of the streets in Kansas 
City, subject to heavy traffic, are paved with this company's product. It is 
interesting to know^ that thirty million bricks from the Pittsburg plant have 
been put down about the Kansas City Stock Yards. 

Mr. Nesch is a Progressive Democrat, a man of liberal views and much 
interested in the municipal welfare. 



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EPHRAIM C. SOOY 

President of the Kansas City Hay Press Company and a Large 
Holder of City Real Estate. 

PHRAIM C. SOOY, president of the Kansas City Hay Press Com- 
pany, was born in Green Bank, New Jersey, in 1 848, son of 
Ephraim C. and Lucy M. Sooy. Both his parents were natives 
of New^ Jersey and his grandfather on the mother's side was 
prominent in New Jersey slate politics. 

In addition to the advantages of the pubHc schools Mr. Sooy 
attended business college in Poughkeepsie, New York. Coming 
to Kansas City in 1882, Mr. Sooy was associated for some time with the Kan- 
sas City Milling Company. He then became interested in the Kansas City 
Hay Press Company, a manufacturing concern which stands high in indus- 
trial Kansas City. Besides this, Mr. Sooy was at one time president of the 
Lucky Tiger Mining Company, president of the Hunter Real Estate Company, 
and now has extensive real estate interests in the city. 

Mr. Sooy married Evelyn Hamilton in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They 
have three children, Mrs. Lucy Sooy Mark, Norman H. Sooy and Elizabeth 
L. Sooy. 

A Republican in politics and a man of liberal and progressive views, 
Mr. Sooy is a Kansas City booster and takes a great interest in all campaigns 
for municipal betterment. 



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HORACE HAVELOCK ANDERSON 



President of the Kansas City Transfer Company, the 
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'GRACE HAVELOCK ANDERSON, president and manager of the 
Kansas City Transfer Company and since 18tt7 a conspicuous 
hgure in commercial Kansas City, was born March I 4, I 656, in 
Hanover County, Virginia. His ancestors were of distinguished 
English connections and came to Virginia early in the eighteenth 
century. Dr. Thomas B. Anderson, grandfather of Horace H., 
was graduated from Pennsylvania University in 1811 and for fifty- 
nine years was one of the most prominent physicians in Virginia. 

Mr. Anderson spent his boyhood in historic Hanover County and his 
early recollections are of the Civil war. When the slaves were freed in 1866, 
he was forced at the age of eight, into the field to follow the plow. At night 
he studied. Later he went to school to Alfred Duke, a highly educated farmer, 
w^ho taught him Latin, Greek and higher mathematics. 

Completing his education Mr. Anderson went to live at Topping Castle, 
an estate belonging to his father. In 1881, he went into the milling busi- 
ness with an uncle, in Norfolk, Virginia. In 1885 he moved to Charlottesville, 
Virginia, and engaged in the real estate business. 

Mr. Anderson came to Kansas City in September, 1887, and entered 
mercantile life. He at once affiliated with the Commercial Club. For tw^o 
years he was a traveling salesman. In 1890 he entered the government's em- 
ploy in the improvement of the Missouri River channel; in 1892 he started in 
the contracting and paving business and during that year became secretary 
of the Kansas City Transfer Company. Three years later he gave up the con- 
tracting and paving business and devoted his entire time to the transfer com- 
pany, the oldest of its kind in the city. 

December 17, 1 89 I , Mr. Anderson married Phebe Fleming Brent, a daugh- 
ter of one of the old families of Kentucky. They have one son, Thomas 
Brent Anderson. 

In 1895 Mr. Anderson was made Quartermaster of the Third Regiment, 
Missouri Infantry, National Guard, staff officer with rank of Captain. The 
regiment volunteered for regular service in the Spanish-American war and 
was mustered out in November, 1898. 



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ALFRED HOLTMAN 

Sole Owner of the Hottman Heating Company, One of the 
Largest Concerns of Us Kind. 




LFRED HOLTMAN. founder and owner of the extensive business 
conducted under the firm name of the Holtnian Heating Company, 
was born in Illinois, his parents being natives of Sweden. 

With only a common school education, Mr. Holtman early 
sho^\'ed his ability as a business man and in 1 887 became con- 
vinced that Kansas City was destined to be one of the greatest 
industrial centers in the United States. He located here and 
fifteen years ago established himself in the heating business. While his begin- 
ning was in a very modest way he has added to his activities annually until 
today he has one of the largest interests of its kind in the country and has 
one of the most completely equipped plants in the United States. His success 
has been "self-made" in every sense of the word. 

Twenty-one years ago Mr. Hohman married Miss Mary J. Blake. 
Mr. Holtman is a life member of the Elks and belongs to the Independent 
Order of Foresters. 



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BENJAMIN ROWLAND BEALL 



President of the Excelsior Products and Manufacturing 
Company of Kansas City. 




]ENJAiVIIN ROWLAND BEALL was born in Montgomery County. 

Maryland, in 1865, son of Charles Alexander and Catherine Beall. 

His father was born in Maryland and his mother was a native of 

Washington, D. C. The Beall family was established in America 

in 1658 when Ninian Beall came to America from Scotland, and 

the family has been prominent in American history since that 

date. 

Mr. Beall came to Missouri in 1878. At the age of eighteen years he w^as 

in the grain business and for tw^enty years w^as a successful dealer in the 

Missouri River territory. In October, 1900, he married Elizabeth Ermane 

Thomas at St. Joseph, Missouri. 

In 1891 Mr. Beall, still in the grain business, moved to Kansas City, be- 
lieving it to be the logical center of the great Southwest. In 1907 the Ex- 
celsior Products and Manufacturing Company was organized with Mr. Beall 
as president. From the first it has been a successful venture. The plant is 
situated in the East Bottoms and is one of the largest and finest in this sec- 
tion. The factory, warehouse and yards occupy five acres and the entire 
plant is up-to-date in its equipment and facilities. The factory is a one story 
and basement structure, built of concrete and steel and is equipped with spe- 
cial machinery of the most modern type. The company ships excelsior and 
sweeping compound to all points west of the Missouri River. The capital 
stock of the company is $50,000. The executive offices are in the Massa- 
chusetts Building. 

Mr. Beall is a Democrat, a member of the Rotary Club, and the Corn- 
mercial Club, and a man much interested in the industrial w^elfare of the 
city and state. 



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WILLIAM F. HELM 

President of the William F. Helm Commission Company and 
Vice-President of the Mercantile Bank. 




ILLIAM F. HELM, president of the William F. Helm Commission 
Company, vice-president of the Mercantile Bank, president of the 
Kansas City Fruit Auction Company and treasurer of the Union 
Celery Company, was born in Sedalia, Missouri, December 24, 
1877, the son of John and Kathryn Helm. He married Anna D. 
Wurzer in 1901. They have three daughters. 

Mr. Helm came to Kansas City from Sedalia, in 1 884, and 
for nine years was connected with the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association of 
St. Louis. Leaving this employment, Mr. Helm engaged in the commission 
business and made a remarkable success from the first. He incorporated the 
William F. Helm Commission Company in 1905 and his two brothers, O. C. 
and E. J. Helm, are now associated with him in the management. Besides the 
main house in Kansas City, which does over a million dollars' worth of business 
annually, a branch house is maintained in Lawrence, Kansas. 

Mr. Helm is a member of the Produce Exchange and was at one time 
president of the organization. He is a member of the Commercial Club and 
a Shriner. 



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FLORIAN C. FLORANCE 

General Broker in Coal and Building Material, Civil Engineer 
and Railroad Man. 




JLORIAN C. FLORANCE was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 
July 27, 1859, and lived in that city until his maturity. He was 
educated as a civil engineer, and at the time of his coming West, 
in 1680, to Kansas City, was connected with the Engineer Corps 
of the Pennsylvania Railroad. 

Arriving in Kansas City, Mr. Florance remained in his pro- 
fession under such well known engineers as John Donnelly, George 
W. Neir, and Knight & Bontecau, and afterwards was in charge of the Main- 
tenance of Way of the Missouri Pacific Railroad under Andrew^ Don nan sta- 
tioned at Sedalia. On his return to Kansas City he was made Chief Engineer 
of the Fifth Street Cable Line, known at that time as the Shallow Conduit 
System, which afterward became a portion of the Metropolitan Street Railway 
System. On account of the strain on his eyesight in this profession he w^as 
compelled to leave it and go into a commercial business, adopting a general 
brokerage line of coal and building materials, representing many of the best 
firms of the Central West, and removed to Independence, Missouri, where his 
business has been continued until this time. 

Mr. Florance is a member of the Masonic fraternity, the Commercial 
Club of Independence, Railroad Club of Kansas City, and other organizations. 
He is also a veteran of the First Regiment, National Guards of Pennsylvania, 
and a retired officer of the National Guards of Missouri, having served fourteen 
years as an officer in the Seventh, Third and Second Regiments. 



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THEODORE REMLEY 

Attorney and Police Commissioner of Kansas City and Former 
Justice of the Peace, Eighth District. 




^ HEODORE REMLEY, prominent attorney and police commissioner 
for Kansas City, appointed by Governor Herbert S. Hadley, was 
born December 2, 1866, at Bentonsport, Iowa, son of George 
and Mary J. Remley. His parents were natives of Greene County, 
Pennsylvania. 

After completing the common school course, Mr. Remley 
entered Oberlin College, at Oberlin, Ohio, from \vhich he was 
graduated in 1896. October 24, 1899, he married Mabel Eells at Albion, In- 
diana. They have an adopted son. Master Paul Remley. 

Since coming to Kansas City in 1884 Mr. Remley has taken a prominent 
part in Republican politics. In 1906 he was elected justice of the peace of the 
Eighth district, on the Republican ticket, and served until 1910. In that year 
Governor Hadley appointed him to the board of police commissioners of Kansas 
City, in which capacity he is now serving. 

Mr. Remley is a man of liberal views and his services as police commis- 
sioner have given general satisfaction. He is a member of Union Lodge 168, 
I. O. O. P., and of Knights of Pythias Lodge No. I. 



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JOHN R. CROWE 

President of the J. R. Crowe Coal and Mining Company and 
Interested in Other Big Enterprises. 

lOHN R. CROWE, president of the J. R. Crowe Coal and Mining 
Company, was born in Hamden, Ohio, October 12, 1858, son of 
David and Susan Leff Crowe. Both parents were natives of 

Pennsylvania. 

Starting out with a common school education, Mr. Crowe 
has made his own opportunities. All his life he has been en- 
gaged in the mining business. He was located in Joplin, Missouri, 
for many years, where he was interested in lead and zinc mining. From there 
he went to Kansas and the J. R. Crowe Coal and Mining Company was es- 
tablished, the offices first being at Weir City, Kansas. In 1898 Mr. Crowe 
moved the company's headquarters to Kansas City. The company ope rat ej 
extensively in Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma. Besides the J. R. Crow^e Coa'i 
and Mining Company, Mr. Crowe is interested in several other successful firms, 
among them being the Baltimore Hotel Company and the Cherokee Fuel Com- 
pany. 

In 1887, Mr. Crowe married Margaret Hamilton. They have a son and 
a daughter. Politically, Mr. Crow^e is a Republican and, while taking no ag- 
gressive part in the campaigns, he is a man alw^ays awake to the best inter- 
ests of the city and the Southwest. He is a member of the Commercial Club, 
the Kansas City Club and is a Mason. 



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WILLIAM D. OLDHAM 

Wholesale and Retail Grocer Who Established His Business in Kansas 
City Thirty-two Years Ago. 




ILLIAM D. OLDHAM, prominent wholesale and retail grocer, who 
has been in business in Kansas City since IfitiO, was born in 
Georgia, January 10, 1861, son of J. C. and Melissa Underwood 
Oldham. His father was a native of Kentucky and his mother 
was born in Tennessee. 

Mr. Oldham was graduated from the school in Doltan, 
Georgia, in 1879 and the following year came to Kansas City and 
began the business which has grown into the present extensive wholesale 
and retc'l trade at 507-9 Main Street. Mr. Oldham is a man who has accom- 
plished his own success through hard work and an honest business policy. 
December 25. 1887. Mr. Oldham married Miss E. C. Mitchell, of Mc- 
Donald, Tennessee. They have two children, a son and a daughter. 

Politically Mr. Oldham is a Democrat and he takes a keen interest in 
the things which are of direct benefit to Kansas City. He is a member of 
the Modem Woodmen. 



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SAMUEL P. WOODS 

President of the Woods-Egan Live Stock Commission Company 
and an Authority on Live Stock. 




AMUEL P. WOODS, prominent as one of the leading live stock 
commission men of the Southwest, was born in Henderson 
County, Illinois, May 19, 1859, son of James H. and Elizabeth 
Woods. His father was born in Gibson County, Indiana, and his 
mother in Louisville, Kentucky. 

Mr. Woods has been in the live stock commission business 
in Kansas City for about twenty years. He was first interested 
in the Northwestern Live Stock Commission Company, which six years ago 
was consolidated with the Evans, Snider, Buell Company. Three years ago 
Mr. Woods reorganized his business under the firm name of Woods 6c Ott 
Commission Company and a year later the present company, Woods-Egan 
Live Stock Commission Company, was organized. It is now one of the most 
prominent doing business out of Kansas City. 

December 24, 1883, Mr. Woods married Clara A. Moore. They have 
five children. 



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JAMES E. TURNER 

Manager of the Saunders-Turner Lumber Company and One of Kansas 
City's Substantial Young Men. 




AMES E. TURNER, manager for the Saunders-Turner Lumber 
Company, of Kansas City, was born in Bedford, Missouri, April 
i 1 . I 8b2, the son of Samuel G. and Laura E. Turner. His 
father was born in Virginia and his mother in Missouri. The 
ancestral stock all came originally from Virginia. 

After completing the common school courses, Mr. Turner 
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16, 1910, he married Hortense Taylor. 

Coming to Kansas City after completing his college work, 
became associated w^ith the Saunders-Turner Lumber Company of which hi» 
father is the head. After learning the business he was made manager, w^hich 
position he now occupies. 



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ERNEST R. SWEENEY 

Manager Coal Department Central Coal & Coke Company, 
One of the Southwest's Laigest Concerns. 




^RNEST R. SWEENEY, manager of the coal department of the Cen- 
tral Coal 6c Coke Company of Kansas City, was born in Fort 
Scott, Kansas, in February, 1867, son of George R. and Amanda 
C. Sweeney. His father and mother came from Mercer County, 
Pennsylvania. 

Mr. Sweeney is a Republican in politics, but has taken no 
active part in the variou;, campaigns. His w^ife, before her mar- 
riage, was Hattie E. Fiske. They have one son, Ben A. Sweeney. 

The story of Mr. Sw^eeney's advancement w^ith the Central Coal & Coke 
Company is the story of merited rewa rd for hard work. He first worked 
for the Keith & Perry Coal Company and in 1882 took the position of weigh- 
master for the Central Coal & Coke Company at I I I 1 West Twelfth Street; 
later he was made bookkeeper and then advanced to collector. From this posi- 
tion he was promoted to manager of the city sales department and then to the 
management of the entire retail business of the big concern. In 1907 he was 
made manager of the entire coal department and has served in that capacity 
to the present date. 

Mr. Sw^eeney, in common with all the officials of the Central Coal & Coke 
Company, has always been a friend to the newspaper fraternity. 



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FRANCIS LYMAN OILMAN 

General Manager of the Missouri and Kansas Telephone Company 
and a Recognized Telephone Authority. 




RANCIS LYMAN OILMAN, general manager of the Missouri and 
Kansas Telephone Company, was born in New Bedford, Massa- 
chusetts, February 12, 1873, son of Francis Lyman and Frances 
Thomazine Gilman. His father was born in New Hampshire and 
his mother in Boston, Massachusetts. 

Graduating from Harvard University in 1895, Mr. Gilman 
at once became connected with the telephone and telegraph business, being 
on the staff of one of the vice-presidents of the American Telephone and 
Telegraph Company of New York. In 1910 Mr. Gilman came to Kansas City 
and has been connected with the Missouri and Kansas Telephone Company, 
of which he is now general manager, since his arrival. 

In 1896 Mr. Gilman married Harriet Frances Hart. They have a daughter 
fourteen years old. .\ Republican in politics, Mr. Gilman is a man of liberal 
views and a recognized expert in the management and maintenance of tele- 
phone systems. He is a member of the Kansas City Club, the Mid-Day Club, 
Evanston Golf Club, Engineers' Club, and the Harvard Club. He is also a 
Mason, being affiliated with the New York lodge. 



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WILLIAM THOMAS GRANT 

Secretary and Treasurer of the Business Men's Accident Association and 
Prominent Among Insurance Men. 




ILLIAM THOMAS GRANT, secretary and treasurer of the Busi- 
ness Men's Accident Association, was born in Middleport, Ohio, 
November 30, 1878, son of William H. and Etta J. Logan Grant, 
who were both natives of Ohio. 

After completing the common schools, Mr. Grant attended 

Kansas University in 1902-3. Later he came to Kansas City 

and went into the insurance business, making a remarkable 

success from the first and quickly coming to his present place of responsibility. 

April 29, 1908, Mr. Grant married Miss Frances Downing. They have 

one daughter. 

Politically Mr. Grant is a Republican. He is a Knight Templar, a 
Shriner, a member of the Knife and Fork Club, the Kansas City Athletic 
Club, the Y. M. C. A. and the City Club. 



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JOSEPH R. DONEGAN 

Manager of the Hotel Edward ard the Century Theater; 
One of the Press Club's First Friends. 




OSEPH R. DONEGAN, manager of the Hotel Edward and the 
Century Theater, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, October 4, 187 7, 
the son of John P. and Mary Byrne Donegan. Both his parents 
were natives of New York state. His father was a mining pro- 
moter who opened the first salt mine in W/oming. He died in 
1 903 in Nome, Alaska, where he was in the < mploy of the govern- 
ment. 
After completing the common school courses. Mr. Donegan attended 
Christian Brothers College in St. Louis. On leaving school Mr. Donegan be- 
came associated with Edward Butler and for twenty-three years continued in 
his employ, working up from a clerical position in the "office to manager of 
the Butler interests in Kansas. In 1899 Mr. Donegan was sent to Kansas 
City to take charge of the Century Theater, which was completed in 1900. 
Mr. Donegan married Rose LeDenardo of St. Louis. 

Mr. Donegan is a member of the Knights of Pythias, Elks, Moose, Eagles, 
the Theatrical Mechanics' Association and is an associate member of the 
Kansas City Press Club, having been one of the men who assisted in its or- 
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CHARLES H. BAIRD 

Manager and Treasurer and One of the Organizers of the Kansas 
City Casket and Furniture Company. 




"jHARLES H. BAIRD. manager and treasurer of the Kansas City 
Casket and Furniture Company, 1312-14 West Eighth Street, was 
born in Iowa. He came to Kansas City from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 
in 1902, when the Kansas City Casket and Furniture Company 
was established. 

Mr. Eaird's history in Kansas City is that of his company, 
which has shown a remarkable growth, making an increase in 
business of over six hundred per cent since its first year. At present the com- 
pany employs a large force of traveling men who cover the entire Southwest 
and the concern is one of the most prominent features of manufacturing Kan- 
sas City. Its specialties are caskets and funeral supplies. Besides the manu- 
facture and sale of this line, the company does an extensive business as whole- 
sale jobbers of furniture. 

The officers of the company, besides Mr. Baird, are D. C. Buckstaff, 
president; J. Donnelly, vice-president, and S. W. Wilcox, secretary. Mr. Baird 
and Mr. Wilcox are the only members of the firm who live in Kansas City, 



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GEORGE E. MUEHLEBACH 

President of the Muehlebach Estate Company and Head of One of 
the Largest Brewery Interests in the West. 




EORGE E. MUEHLEBACH, son of George and Margaret M. (Bes- 
senbacher) Muehlebach, was born in Kansas City, August 10, 
1 88 L His father was born in Switzerland and his mother in 
Illinois. 

With a common school education obtained in Kansas City 
and a course in Spalding's Business College, Mr. Muehlebach was 
called to take charge of one of the largest brewery interests in 
the state, when he was a very young man. He has "made good" in every 
sense of the word. Today he is president of the Muehlebach Brewing Com- 
pany, a director in the National Bank of the Republic, and president of the 
Muehlebach Estate Company. 

A busy man and modest. Mr. Muehlebach has always been among the 
first to give material aid to projects of vital interest to Kansas City. As a 
rule, his activities are known only to those directly interested in a given project 
since he invariably insists on the minimum of publicity. 



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A. S. McCLEARY, M. D. 

Prominent Specialist Whose Discoveries of Non-Surgical Methods of Treatment 
Have Brought Him Success. 



S. McCLEARY, M. D., was born in Montgomery City, Missouri, 
August I, 1864, son of Thomas A. and Rebecca M. McCleary. 
Coming to Kansas City in 1893, Dr. McCleary completed his 
professional education in the Eclectic Medical University. Early 
^^^^xvjjj/^^^^_^ in life he devoted some years to newspaper work and commer- 
r ws ^-^ \' cial traveling, but abandoned these callings on entering medical 
college. 
After graduating. Dr. McCleary decided to take up a specialty, and upon 
investigation found the field of orificial diseases gave promise of the greatest 
opportunity. Not satisfied to follow, but desiring to make a name for himself, 
he chose to specialize in the exclusive field of rectal diseases, and his efforts 
have been directed along that line. Early seeing the danger and inefficiency 
of surgery in the treatment of these diseases, he began investigations along other 
lines and soon discovered that most of them yielded readily to the specific 
action of mild medical remedies properly applied. 

Since commencing the practice of his specialty along non-surgical lines, 
some fifteen years ago, Dr. McCleary has cured many hundreds of sufferers 
and has thoroughly demonstrated that his theories are right and that cures 
are easily effected without the use of chloroform or other general or local 
anesthetics. 



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HENRY SERLIS 

Jobber and Wholesaler of Liquors and an Enthusiast on Kcuisas City 
As a Good Place to Live. 



ENRY SERLIS was born in Germany, August 17, 1875, son of 
Alexander and Olga Serlis. His wife, prior to their marriage, 
was Miss Hattie Weisenbach. They have one daughter and a 
son. He is an Independent, politically. 

Mr. Serlis was engaged in the wholesale liquor business 
in Chicago for six years prior to his coming to Kansas City 
five years ago, where he now has one of the largest businesses 
its kind in the city. 

An extensive traveler, Mr. Serlis has been in practically every city of 
any size in the United States and most of the large cities of Europe. He says 
he will back Kansas City against any of them for both business and residence. 




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WILLIAM HARRISON DAVIS 



Capitalist and Real Estate Holder. Born August 14, 
Died November 20, 1911. 



1834. 




lANSAS CITY sustained a severe loss on November 20, 1911, 
when the long and honorable life of William Harrison Davis, 
retired farmer and extensive real estate holder, for sixty-one years 
a resident of this city, was brought to a close. This w^ell-knowa 
pioneer made his home at the Densmore Hotel, and it was there 
the end came, death being due to acute gastritis. His fortune, 
estimated at $500,000. he left to his niece and companion. Mrs. 
Nannie Davis Shelby, also of Kansas City. 

Mr. Davis was a native Missourian, and throughout his entire life was 
never a resident of another state. At the time of his death it was claimed 
that he was Kansas City's oldest resident. He was born on his father s farm 
in Washington County, August 14, 1834. In 1842, when he was eight years 
of age, the family moved to Lafayette County, and after the death of his 
father moved again into Jackson County, where with his mother he settled 
on a farm. The farm house was located near where Fifty-fifth and Oak 
Streets now intersect. It was at this place, where the homestead was from 
time to time enlarged and rebuilt as their fortunes increased, he resided until 
two years prior to his death, when the residence was destroyed by fire. 

When the Civil War opened Mr. Davis and his brother, Napoleon Davis, 
another well known Kansas City pioneer, who died in 1910, joined Company C 
of the Second Confederate Missouri Infantry. He served throughout the 
entire war in the brigade of General Joseph Shelby, and received promotion 
for bravery in action. 

Returning to his home after the war he played an active part in the 
development in the South Side of Kansas City. The old Davis farm now^ 
comprises one of the exclusive residence districts of the city, w^here are 
located some of the prettiest homes in this section of the country. 

William Harrison Davis was of good American stock, his father, William 
Davis, having been a native of Virginia, and his mother, whose maiden name 
w^as Nancy Reynolds, having been a native of Illinois. Mr. Davis never 
married, but always made his home with his niece, Mrs. Shelby. 



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PHILIP G. WALTON 

Cashier of the New England National Bank and Prominent as 
a Banker in the Southwest. 




HILIP C. WALTON, well known throughout the Southwest as 
cashier of the New England National Bank, was born in Methuen, 
Massachusetts, August 15, 1867, son of James and Josephine 
Woodbury Walton. One of Mr. Walton's maternal great-grand- 
fathers brought from England the first charter of the Massa- 
chusetts Colony. His father was a native of England and his 
mother was born in New Hampshire. 
Mr. Walton went into the banking business when a young man and from 
the first has had a successful career. Prior to his coming to Kansas City 
he was well known in the Southwest through his connections with several large 
banking institutions in Kansas and his services as a national bank examiner 
under Comptrollers William B. Ridgely and Lawrence Murray. On coming to 
Kansas City he became associated with the New England National, of which 
bank he is now cashier. 

Mr. Walton was mayor of Anthony, Kansas, from 1906 to 1908, and 
treasurer of the Board of Education in the same town from 1896 to 1900. In 
politics he is a Republican. 

November 24, 1897, Mr. Walton married Miss Elizabeth C. Bent, of 
Salina, Kansas. They have one daughter, Elizabeth Tess. Mr. Walton is a 
Knight of Pythias, an Elk, and has all the degrees of Masonry except the 
thirty-third. He is a man of progressive ideas and since his coming to Kansas 
City has been an enthusiastic booster for the city. 



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JOSEPH W. VERNON 

President of the Vernon Law Book Company, One of the Largest Law Book 

Concerns in the State. 




:iOSEPH W. VERNON, president of the Vernon Law Book Com- 
pany, one of the largest law publishing concerns in the state, 
was born in Dane County, Wisconsin, April 25, 1860, the son 
of Daniel E. and Mary Ann Goodwin Vernon. Both his par- 
ents were natives of England. 

Mr. Vernon, after having completed the common school 
course, entered Wisconsin University, from which he w^as gradvx- 
ated in 1885. The same year he married Miss Harriet Fish of Madison, 
Wisconsin. They have one daughter, now Mrs. J. R. Amelung. 

Coming to Kansas City in 1888, Mr. Vernon became interested in the 
book publishing business and in September, 1902, organized the Vernon 
Law Book Company, a concern that publishes more legal books than any 
other in the state. In this business Mr. Vernon has made a success. 

A Democrat in politics, Mr. Vernon is a man of liberal views and has 
repeatedly taken an active part in municipal improvement campaigns. He is 
a member of the Commercial Club. 



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FREDERICK RUTHRAUFF HOOVER 

Bridge Engineer; General Agent for the Canton Bridge Company 
of Canton, Ohio. 




;iREDERICK RUTHRAUFF HOOVER, civil engineer and genera! 
agent for the Canton Bridge Company since 1909, was born in 
Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1876. He came to Kansas City with 
his parents, Joseph W. Hoover and Mary C. Ruthrauff Hoover, 
A |?^^^r~^ both natives of Stark County, Ohio, in 1 884. 
3 ^L\.-J^^=^\ Mr. Hoover was graduated from the University of Michigan 

with the class of 1899 and was married to Gertrude E. Mon- 
tague of Traverse City. Michigan, in 1900. For ten years prior to his 
advancement to the general agency for the Canton Bridge Company he was 
employed by the concern in which his father is interested in the same line 
of work. He is affil'ated with no political organization and has never held 
public office. 



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CHARLES EUGENE JOHNSTON 

Chief Engineer of the Kansas City Southern Railway, Standing 
Near the Top in His Profession. 




HARLES EUGENE JOHNSTON, chief engineer of the Kansas 
City Southern Railway Company, with headquarters in Kansas 
City, was born in St. Elmo, Fayette County, Illinois, October 30, 
1880, son of Alexander Morrison and Mary Josephine Bledsoe 
Johnston. His father was a native of Harrison County, Ohio, 
and his mother was born in Fredericksburg, Virginia. 

After finishing his education for the profession of civil 
engineer, Mr. Johnston became associated with the Frisco railroad and from 
1900 to 1906 was assistant engineer for that road. In 1906 he was made 
division engineer for the Kansas City Southern and since January I, 1911, 
has been chief engineer. 

In June, 1907, Mr. Johnston married Miss Ethel Irene Kirkpatrick. He 
is a Republican in politics and a man of pleasing personality and excep- 
tional ability. 



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MELVIN M. RINER 

President and General Manager of the Riner Lumber Company, with 
Headquarters in Kansas City. 



1ELVIN M. RINER, president and general manager of the Riner 
Lumber Company, a concern doing an extensive business 
throughout the Southwest, with general offices in Kansas City, 
w^as born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, in 1870, son of H. R. and Susan 
Riner. His father was born in Ohio and his mother in Indiana. 
Ai The father served with distinction throughout the Civil War. 
In 1894 Mr. Riner married Miss Lizzie D. Tindal. 
A Republican in politics, Mr. Riner, since coming to Kansas City, has 
proved himself a man of liberal and progressive views and has repeatedly 
aided in the campaign for civic improvement. 




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GEORGE G. WRIGHT 

Prominent as a Real Estate Operator on a Large Scale and 
President of the George G. Wright Company. 

;^EORGE G. WRIGHT, president of the George G. Wright Company. 
919 Commerce Building, and one of the most prominent land 
dealers in the Southwest, was born in Topeka, Kansas, in 1666. 
His parents, who were natives of Pennsylvania, died when he was 
a small boy, and from the first Mr. Wright was thrown upon his 
own resources and his success is, therefore, the more remarkable. 
Mr. Wright's youth w^as spent in Pennsylvania. From there 
he w^ent to Southeast Missouri and later to St. Paul, Minnesota, where he be- 
came interested in the land business. After meeting with niuch success in St. 
Paul, in 1906 he came to Kansas City, \vhere he has built up an immense busi- 
ness in Minnesota, North Dakota, Canadian, Texas and Mexico lands. He is 
one of the real authorities on land values in the Southwest. Mr. Wright's com- 
pany bought and sold seven hundred and fifty thousand acres of the land given 
by the state of Texas for its new capitol building. 

Mr. Wright married Nannie J. McLeary of Cape Girardeau, Missouri. He 
is a member of the Mid-Day Club and belongs to the Masons. 




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GEORGE W. TOULMIN 

Manager* of the Standard Milk Company, Which Supplies Most of Kansas 
City's Hotels and Restaurants. 



r^T^^EORGE W. TOULMIN, manager of the Standard Milk Company 
flu^ti^^^ of Kansas City, was born in Massachusetts, February 2, 1862, 
£l(li> (if)L son of William B. and Lavina B. Toulmin, both natives of 
V l^^^\/i ^y V England. 
fS^^^^^AK ^r. Toulmin came to Kansas City in 1883 and became 

^^ga^"'^ J affiliated with the harness and saddlery business for a few years. 
He then entered the real estate business on his own account and 
nineteen years ago went into the milk business. Starting in a small way, he 
began to bring milk to Kansas City from his own farm. Today the company 
of which he is manager furnishes ninety per cent of the milk consumed in 
Kansas City's big hotels and restaurants and draws its supply from 330 farms 
within a radius of fifty miles from the city. Its business is entirely wholesale 
and includes an ice cream department of considerable proportions. The 
company still owns its original farm located at w^hat is now Seventy-ninth 
street and Troost avenue. 

In 1887 Mr. Toulmin married Aurelia D. Kirk. They have no children. 



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CARL AUGUST MUEHLEBACH 

Secretary and General Superintendent of the George Muehlebach 
Brewing Company and a Bank Director. 




;;]ARL AUGUST MUEHLEBACH. secretary and general superin- 
tendent of the George Muehlebach Brewing Company of Kansas 
City, one of the largest brewing interests in the state, is a 
native of Kansas City, having been born November 28, 1887, 
son of George and Margaret M. Muehlebach, w^ho were pioneers 
in Kansas City. The father was born in Switzerland, the mother 
in Illinois. George Muehlebach established the extensive indus- 
try which is now conducted by his sons. 

Carl Muehlebach was educated in St. Benedict's School, from which he 
was graduated in 1904, when he at once took up the task of learning the 
business details of the great business with which he is now^ connected. As 
a member of the Kansas City Automobile Club he has been one of the most 
active men in the city on behalf of the good roads movement. 

Besides his official connections with the brew^ing company, Mr. Muehle- 
bach is secretary of the Muehlebach Estate Company and a director in the 
State Bank of Kansas City. 



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FRANK E. WEAR 

President of the Diamond Window Glass Company and Interested 
in Several Big Plants in the Southwest. 




RANK E. WEAR, one of the truly big glass manufacturers in the 
West, son of James R. and Martha Wear, was born in Pittston, 
Pennsylvania, May 2, I £57. His parents were natives of New 
York state. At present Mr. Wear is president of the Diamond 
Window Glass Company and of the Texas Glass Company, and 
treasurer of the following concerns: Fredonia Window Glass 
Company, Fredonia Gas Company, Fredonia Brick Company and 
the Coffeyville Window Glass Company. 

Mr. Wear is a Republican in politics, and the Southwest has no more 
ardent champion and all around booster than he. Many of the towns of the 
Southwest have been placed on the industrial map by virtue of Mr. Wear's 
investments. 

In 1877, Mr. Wear married Mary Dedrick. They have no children. 



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ELLIS R. JONES 

Secretary of the Kansas City Paper House and a Dealer 
in Paper All His Life. 




LLIS R. JONES, secretary of the Kansas City Paper House, began 
handling paper in 1685, when, as a newsboy, he carried a route 
for the Kansas City Star and the old Kansas City Times. He 
was born in Port Huron, Michigan, in the paper pulp belt, July 
7, 16 73. His father was Elisha S. Jones and his mother, Minne- 
haha, was born in Ontanogan, Michigan. 

From the retail business in printed paper that he carried on 
at the tender age of twelve years, Mr. Jones graduated into the employ of 
the Kansas City Paper House and his present title, that of secretary of the 
firm, is an evidence of his successful service. 

On February 6, 1896, he married Miss Lillian A. Martin, in Independ- 
ence, Missouri. They are the parents of one child, a son. 



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A. MORRISON, JR. 

One of the Leaders in the Movement for Furnishing Pure Milk to the 
Families of Kansas City. 




MORRISON, JR., known throughout the Southwest for his inter- 
est in pure milk, president of the A. Morrison Farm Company, 
which operates the model dairy at Shawnee Mission, Kansas, 
was born in Arrow Rock, Missouri, in 1 884, son of A. and 
Enola Collins Morrison, both natives of Missouri. 

Mr. Morrison came to Kansas City with his parents in 1892 
and received his education in the Kansas City schools. In 1904 
he started in the dairy business with three cows. Being a man of liberal 
views, he soon realized that the old method of dairying was doomed. He 
was sure that the clean dairy and pure milk would be welcome to the public, 
and he shaped his policy accordingly. When the pure milk agitation came 
on it was discovered that Kansas City already had a man in the person of 
Mr. Morrison who had been working for pure milk for several years. The 
history of the A. Morrison Farm Company is his history and the public has 
been much interested in it. 

As has been stated, Mr. Morrison began business with three cows. He 
now has 1 7 1 his?h grade cows which he subjects to the most severe tests and 
which are cared for under sanitary conditions which are the envy of the 
entire state. He also operates nine retail milk wagons. The products of his 
dairy are handled after the most scientific methods known. When drav^rn 
from the cows the milk is immediately cooled and bottled and delivered direct 
to the consumer, being kept on ice from the pail until it is delivered. The 
milking is done in buildings which have been especially designed along sanitary 
lines approved by dairy experts, and in 1911, when the pure milk agitation 
was at its height, the health department scored this dairy highest of any in 
the vicinity of Kansas City. 

Mr. Morrison's success in the pure milk business has been the result 
of the most painstaking application to the business in hand. Selecting per- 
sonally his milk cows and growing the feed upon his own farm and under 
his personal direction, he has brought his dairy up to a standard which is as 
near perfection as is possible. He is one of the few men in the state who 
has always invited inspection by the authorities and has always been anxious 
to co-ooe ate in the pure milk crusade; in fact, many of the methods now 
generally represented to dairymen as the best and most practical originated 
in Mr. Morrison's dairy. At various times Mr. Morrison's place and herd 
have been inspected by the city health department, the state officials and 
the United States government inspectors, and always it has been found far 
above the standard required. 

As indicative of the perfection in Mr. Morrison's methods, in one scoring 
by the health department his dairy not only was first, but it lacked but lO.I 
points of being absolutely perfect. In a recent test made by the Kansas 
City Testing Laboratory the milk from this dairy showed a bacteria count 
of only 31,680 per cubic centimeter. The requirement of the city health 
department calls for not more than 300,000 per cubic centimeter, showing 
that the Morrison dairy product had only one-tenth of the amount found in 
milk passed as pure. 



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ROBERT KEITH 



President and Founder Robert Keith Furniture and Carpet Company, Whose 
Business Extends Over the Entire Southwest. 




OBERT KEITH, founder of the immense furniture and carpet 
business which bears his name, was born in Lexington, Missouri. 
His father. Smith Keith, was a native of Virginia, who came 
to Missouri in 1839. Robert, after finishing his school educa- 
tion, engaged in various lines of activity until 1872, when the 
foundation of the present concern was laid in Leavenworth, 
Kansas. In 1882 the company removed to Kansas City, occupy- 
ing a building of four stories and basement at 811-813 Main street. 

Increasing business demanded more room and in 1887 a building on 
Walnut street at the rear of the Main street store was erected. The new 
building contained five stories and basement, seventy-five feet by one hun- 
dred and fifteen feet, and was connected with the other by means of covered 
bridges across the alley. These two buildings were occupied until 1891, at 
which time the company moved into the splendid seven-story and basement 
building erected by Dr. John Bryant at the southwest corner of Grand avenue 
and Eleventh street. In the spring of 1901 the company moved directly across 
the street into a fine seven-story and basement building especially erected 
for its use by Colonel Thomas H. Swope. In 1906 two additional floors 
were added, giving the building at present nine floors and basement. 

About the time the company moved into the Swope building it built 
a commodious warehouse at Twenty-first street and Baltimore avenue, which 
it occupied for ten years. This building was sold during its occupancy. A 
short time before the Baltimore avenue warehouse was vacated the company 
built a substantia! six-story warehouse and factory at Thirteenth and Charlotte 
streets. The building at Thirteenth and Charlotte streets and the main store 
at Grand avenue and Eleventh street afford splendid facilities for conducting 
the vast business of the company. 

The firm retails furniture, rugs, carpets, curtains and everything per- 
taining to floor coverings and draperies, also hand-made mattresses and spring 
bed bottoms of its own manufacture, and of which it makes a specialty. It 
is also a wholesaler and does a complete house furnishing business, including 
interior decorations. Its business extends in large volume over thirteen 
adjacent states in the West and Southwest. 

Besides Mr. Keith, president of the company and its founder, the other 
officers are; Haibert White, vice-president; Frank W. Biggar, second vice- 
president; William G. Ennis, treasurer, and George W. Taylor, secretary, all 
of w^hom have spent practically their entire business lives w^ith this one cor- 
poration, growing up in close touch w^ith its ideals and aims. 



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INDEX 

Alden, Maurice L ' ' - 

Alkire, Arthur Newton ^ 

Anderson, Horace Havelock 23 7 

Atwood, John Karricon I '"J 

Backstrom, Frank G "2 

Baird, Charles H 251 

Baird, Ralph Byron 8 

Barnett, Carl J 8 

Beall, Benjamin Rowland Z3V 

Berger. Albert L 74 

Bergfeldt, Charles A 159 

Bland, William Thomas _ 157 

Bond, George Albert ' 4z 

Boob, Charles H > 47 

Boyle, Louis C ^" 

Bradley, James T 1 ' 4 

Breyfogle, Charles Coe ' ^2 

Brown, Arthur C 36 

Brown, Bestor Gaston 1 5o 

Brown, Darius A 12 

Brubaker, Jonathan A 79 

Brundrett, Ernest Low 151 

Burrow, Frank H '90 

Carter, Benjamin Franklin 126 

Chapman, Arthur 2 I 8 

Cherry, Herman G • 66 

Clarke, Charles Whittle 1 09 

Cleary, John M 216 

demons, Charles C 153 

Coffin, George O., M.D 95 

Cottingham, Arnold Douglas 120 

Cowh-rd, William S 127 

Craver, Charles C 223 

Crockett, Jameo D. M 118 

Crowe, John R 243 

Crutchcr. Edwin Ruthven 42 

Crysler, Charles Sumner ill 

Culbertson, Jerry 104 

Culber^son, William C 7 1 

Curtis, Orin LeRoy 230 

Darby, C. Harry 92 

Davis, William Harrison 255 

Dean, Frank J 122 

Dillenbeck, Preston K 162 

Dixon, George A 83 

Dodson, Bruce 13 

Doggett, Fred Sterling I 87 

Dominick, James Robert 24 

Donegan. Joseph R 250 

Dowling, Rev. Michael P 35 

Downing, John F 1 03 

Eaton, Dudley Ward 73 

Edson, Job A 1 84 

Edwards, George H 148 

Egner, John C 37 

Eppstein, Samuel 105 

Evans, Andrew Forsythe 200 

Faxon, Frank A 20 

Flaugh, Charles L 222 

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Flick. Robert J 83 

Flintom, Albert Dix 144 

Florance, Florian C 24 1 

Flynn, Matthew A 76 

Flynn, Nugent J 154 

Foster, Benjamin Butler 196 

Foster, John J 198 

Fratt, Frederick WilHam 19 

French, Clinton D 102 

Friedberg, Harry 54 

Fyke, Matthew A 107 

Gary, Theodore 226 

Gilman, Francis Lyman 248 

Goebel, Peter W 86 

Goldsmith, Joseph M 154 

Grant, William Thomas 249 

Greene, W. Wallace 134 

Griffin, Wentworth Edwin 84 

Groff, Warren Noble 164 

Grush, Walter L 149 

Hagg, Lawrence W 80 

Hale, George C 5 7 

Hare, Sidney J 221 

Hargis, Benjamin Finley 213 

Harrington, John Lyle 110 

Harrison, George Billingsley 201 

Harvey, Ford F 1 82 

Harvey, Jacque G. L '. 168 

Harzfeld, Jacob A 23 

Hazelton, Andrew J 131 

Hedrick, Ira Grant 106 

Helm, William F 240 

Herr, Horace H 7 

Hess, Edwin J 68 

Higgs, Thomas J 15 

High, Samuel Y 93 

Hill, William B I 58 

Hocker, Richard W 205 

Hoefer, Charles Christian 91 

Holden, James Franklin 28 

Hollinger, Job 98 

Holmes, Conway Flowerree 21 

Holtman, Alfred 238 

Hoover, Frederick Ruthrauff 258 

Houchin, James A 172 

Hudson, Franklin 18 

Hughes, William 30 

Hutchings, Charles Frederick 56 

Irving, Junius B 136 

James, John Crawford 231 

Jarboe, Henry Lee, Jr 161 

Johnston, Charles Eugene 259 

Johnston, John Laurence 197 

Johnston, John T. M 14 

Jones, Ellis R 265 

Jones, Richard B 228 

Jones, Robert Harry 72 

Jost, Henry L II 

Kansas City, History of 2 

Kansas City Press Club 5 

Kansas City Press Club Officers 7 

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Keith, Charles S 202 

Keith, Robert 267 

Kelley, John R 233 

Kelly, George H 115 

Kendall, David Alden 225 

King, W. Eugene 40 

Kirsten, Julian Girvan 212 

Kitchen, John Howard 1 65 

Kraua, Philip 133 

Kuehne, Charles H 113 

Kumpf, George 234 

Kundegraber, Edward H 7 

Kupper. William John 170 

Leidigh, Paul John 32 

Lence, William Robert I 08 

Lesley, Albert G 48 

Littlefield, Walter 64 

Lochridge, Wiilard Fislce 8 

Lock, George A 38 

Long, Robert Alexander 128 

McCarty, Richard Justin 99 

McCleary, A. S.. M.D 253 

Maitland, Alexander, Jr 43 

Malcolmson, James Waddell 55 

Mann, Conrad H 89 

Marks, Thomas Rankin I 80 

Martin, Edward L 29 

Martin, J. Frank 138 

Martin, Robert James I 85 

Maxwell, Joseph E 192 

Meng, Warren Douglas 8 

Meriwether, Hunter Mackeand 123 

Merriam, Wiilard 61 

Meservey, Edwin Clement 125 

Mintun, Val B 77 

Moffatt, Edwin Otis 135 

Moore, George Gilchrist 90 

Morledge, Thomas 167 

Morrison, A., Jr 266 

Morrow, Thomas R 81 

Muehlebach, Carl August 263 

Muehlebach. George E 252 

Muhlfeld, John Erhardt 169 

Mullane, John P 82 

Myers, George M 119 

Neal, Fernando P 139 

Nesch, Robert 235 

Nims, Eugene D 210 

Noggle, Sherman W 121 

O'Malley, R. Emmett 60 

Oldham, William D 244 

Olmstead, Rev. Edwin B 130 

Oppenstein, Louis 232 

Orear, Ed T 129 

Orthwein, Charles Clemmens 217 

Page, James R 27 

Pain, Thomas J. B 214 

Parker, Charles David 25 

Pearson, Archibald Allen 191 

Peet, Albert W 52 

Peet, William 209 

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Peltzer. Theodor C 207 

Peters. Charles C 208 

Pollard, John Barton 195 

Prescott, John Adams 16 

Prescott, John P 150 

Prewitt, James Allen 96 

Proctor, David M 1 76 

Punton, John 44 

Remley, Theodore 242 

Rider. David Wilson 78 

Ridge, Thomas S 34 

Riggs, Charles Boynton 50 

Riner, Melvin M 260 

Roberts. W. B 143 

Robertson, Richard 206 

Rosenzweig, Grant I I 94 

Ruff, Robert Burns 68 

Rust, Eugene 181 

Sachs, Charles 117 

Schmelzer, Charles J 137 

Schneider. Will-am B 31 

Sebree, Frank P 75 

Seitz. John D 186 

Serlis, Henry 254 

Setzler. Philip 67 

Shipley, Charles Pervine 132 

Simpson, Charles L 215 

Smith, B. Howard 163 

Smith, Charles A 224 

Smith, Eugene N 8 

Smith, Granville M 145 

Smith. Matt R 45 

Snider, J. Scott, M-D 175 

Snoddy, John W 63 

Snyder, Robert M., Jr 66 

Sooy, Ephraim C 236 

Sparrow, Sam I 40 

Stevenson, George, Jr 22 

Stewart, Sesco. D.V.S 220 

Studebaker. Lyman J I 1 

Sullivan, John 59 

Sulzberger, Ferdinand I 78 

Sutherlin, James R 53 

Swanger, John E 204 

Swearingen, Orson H 47 

Sweeney, Ernest R 247 

S\veet, Cyrus Bardeen 70 

Swenson. Godfrey 58 

Swinney, Edward F 94 

Tanner, Thomas Jefferson 7 

Tebeau, George 171 

1 homson, William 41 

Thurmond, William R 87 

Timmonds, Henry Carroll 177 

Tobie. Clarence W 229 

Toll. Phil Riley 188 

Toulmin, George W 262 

Truitt, Elmore Shelton 69 

Turner, James E 246 

Uhl. August B 199 

Vanderslice, Howard 65 

Van Horn, Robert Thompson 9 

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Velie. Stephen Henry 146 

Vernon, Joseph W 257 

Waddell, John Alexander Low 116 

Walton, Philip G 256 

Ward, Robert Edward 7 

Wear, Frank E 264 

Weaver, William Christian 124 

White, Joseph Edward 174 

Wilson, Albert Millen 3 3 

Winn. Edwin L 49 

Winstanley, Edward 1 60 

Winter, Robert L 51 

Wirthman, Joseph C 46 

Wolf, Frederick A 141 

Woods, Samuel P 245 

Wornall, Douglas B 179 

Wright, George G 261 

Zook, Thomas J 26 



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